| The purpose of this paper is to show the evidences of pre and proto-historic human subsistence based on the explorations conducted in the Talakona valley, a part of well-known Seshachalam hills (Tirumala hills) in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh in South India. The valley consisting prehistoric stone artifacts like hand axes and cleavers, caves, rock shelters rock art, megalithic dolmens and Neolithic mortars and ring stones etc. The available evidences suggest that the Talakona valley has human continuity from Lower Palaeolithic period to the present era.This paper is also discusses the ethno-archaeological information of the explored sites and the histories of the place names. |