Bengaluru, Feb. 9 -- A team led by a scholar from Hartwick College in the United States has unearthed a largely intact human burial site, in addition to other artefacts dating to the Neolithic and later periods in Tekkalakote in Ballari district.

The discoveries were made at Gowdra Moole hill range on the southwestern fringes of Tekkalakote, people familiar with the matter said.

Namita S Sugandhi, associate professor of anthropology at the college, led the research team, which included Dr. Yashaswini Jayadevayya, a researcher with the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, G Rohini, a post-graduate scholar in Central University of Karnataka, and V Ashok Abkari, a local scholar and former school teacher who has aided Sugandhi on earli...