Hanuman, Angada and the rest of the Vanaras Mooka (gang) raided
Sugriva‘s Madhuvana (Honey forest) with the glee of having found
Sita and drank as much honey as they liked! (61st Sarga
Kishkinda Kanda of Valmiki Ramayanam). Reference for the
information below : The Archaeobotany of South India
(Agricultural Origins) Above: Archaeological examples of the
most common seeds on Southern Neolithic sites, clockwise from
top left: Brachiaria ramosa, Vigna radiata, Macrotyloma
uniflorum, Setaria verticillata. In Northern and Eastern
Karnataka, there are two important categories of Neolithic
sites. - Permanent habitation sites, where agriculture was
practised, were often located on the peaks of granite hills that
punctuate the plains of Karnataka. - The enigmatic ‘ashmound’
sies which consist of large, heaped accumulations of burnt
cattledung, the largest some 8 meters in height and some 40
meters in diameter. - Archaeological evidence from a couple of
the ashmounds indicates that they are sites of ancient cattle
penn