Ādamgarh

The Mesolithic rock-shelter group at Hoshangabad on the Narmada, Madhya Pradesh, 20 kilometres from Bhimbetka, with painted shelters and animal-domestication evidence from around 7000 BCE — some of the earliest evidence for cattle and sheep husbandry in the subcontinent. The 55 painted shelters show hunting scenes, dancing figures, elephants and crocodiles in white and ochre pigment layered across multiple periods. The site was excavated by H.D. Sankalia in the 1950s and dated by Deccan College. The microliths and the painted-shelter continuity make Adamgarh a working document of the Mesolithic-to-Chalcolithic transition on the Narmada.