The present volume embodies comprehensive documentation, classification and
analysis of the rock art of Andhra Pradesh which is one of the important
regional rock art zones of peninsular India. The rock art data is analyzed from
the thematic and stylistic perspective taking note of the features such as
colour schemes superimpositions and state of preservation of the pictographs and
petroglyphs. The entire corpus of rock art is classified, both at the intra-site
and inter-site levels and tentatively dated to Mesolithic Neolithic Megalithic
and Historical periods. This is done on the basis of the internal analysis of
the rock art representations corroborated by circumstantial archaeological data
either from excavations