Bandarawela’s open-air prehistoric site, part of Balangoda culture, was discovered by Sarasin brothers (1907), later explored by Seligmann and Hartley
Bandarawela Prehistoric Site B andarawela Prehistoric Site , also known as Church Hill Prehistoric Site (Sinhala: බණ්ඩාරවෙල ප්රාග්ඓතිහාසික ස්ථානය), is an Open-air Prehistoric Site located in the premises of Department of Meteorology in Bandarawela town in Badulla District, Sri Lanka. It is considered one of the sites in the Bandarawela region that is important in revealing the traces of country's so-called Balangoda Culture in open-air contexts (Perera, 2010). History Discovery Situated in the upland dry zone of the country, this area was first discovered in 1907 by the Sarasins of Basle, two Swiss anthropologists who recoreded the collection of stone artifacts from the hilltops surrounding the present Anglican Church (Sitrampalam, 1987). The site was later investigated by Seligmann in 1908, followed by excavations carried out by Hartley in 1913 and 1914 (Hartley, 1913; Priyadarshani and Gunasena, 2017). From the excavations, Hartley collected plentiful artefacts and some of them are presently housed in the Museu…
