The rock art sites in the Kundu river valley in Gadivemula Mandal are 40 kilometers from Kurnool city and are known locally as Yedoorlagayi, Siddhulagayi, and Gurralapadah.
Rare black stick-like drawings of humans have been discovered in two caverns near the Kundu River in Paibogula village, Kurnool district.
Yadava Raghu, an assistant professor of history at Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence in Kalaburagi, Karnataka, had been studying rock art in the district and Kadapa for a long time when he came across these drawings dating back to the Megalithic Period (1500 to 500 BC) and the early Historical Period (500 BC to 600 AD).
The rock art sites in the Kundu river valley in Gadivemula Mandal are 40 kilometers from Kurnool city and are known locally as Yedoorlagayi, Siddhulagayi, and Gurralapadah.
These sites feature rock art in black, red, and white paints, as well as cupules or cup markings of various sizes, which need to be investigated further for an exact date.
Gneissic granite, a particularly hard and erosion-resistant rock type, was used to create these cupules. The largest of these has a diameter of 10 cm and a depth of 5 cm.
A ravine at the village’s entrance named Chinna Kanuma contains about 100 black-coloured drawings, which are exceptionally unusual. These are exceedingly rare discoveries in Andhra Pradesh, and that the majority of the depictions were of human or stick figures (representation of humans).
A confident standing human with his left hand on his waist, a person with a trident-shaped weapon in his right hand, a pea-hen bird, and a human clutching a shield in his left hand are all depicted in the drawings.
The second shelter (Gurrala Padah, or horse cave) is about 500 meters south of the village, on the bank of Palle Pullamma Sela, a brook that enters the Kudu river.