Exploring South Indian Iron Age Megalithic Burial Site for its Habitational and Spatial Distribution over the Kaveri Landscape at Koppa, Karnataka, India

Intensive archaeological explorations during 2013- 2015 in an area of 9 sq. km, centring Koppa megalithic burial site in Karnataka, India have resulted in studying the landscape and land use, cultural activities and distribution, and settlement pattern of Iron Age. Combination of archaeological and geographical data has helped in constructing a cultural and political ecological model. Here, the Iron Age society seems to have witnessed a frequent occupational shifts across the core and off sites/hinterlands depending on the available natural resources at distinct locations for sustaining their subsistence economy and leading a dispersed settlement pattern way of life.