The rock art of Kupgal, south India, represents an archive of images amassed over five millennia. The author works out a first sequence and shows how the Neolithic petroglyph site may have functioned in its landscape – as a ritual locality at which not only images but sound, performance and social relationships were all prominent.
Figure 1. Map of the Sanganakallu-Kupgal heritage area, showing locations of main prehistoric sites (adapted from Figure 5.8 in Fuller 1999).