Abstract:
The village of Havanevela is located in the Havanevela Gramasevaka Division in the Galewela
Divisional Secretariat of the Matale District. The site is located seven kilometres from the Galevela
junction and can be approached via the Galevela- Matale road (B345). The preliminary excavation at
the Havanevela cist burial carried out in 2007 by the Department of Archaeology, University of
Kelaniya provided valuable evidence with regard to the cist burial culture in the Upper Kala Oya
region. Furthermore, it also augmented Prof. Sudarshan Seneviratne’s (1987) theory on areas of
attraction and areas of isolation/ relative isolation in relation to two other significant cist burials in the
Upper Kala Oya region, Ibbankatuva and Yatigalpotta. This paper aims to discuss the testing of
Seneviratne’s above mentioned theory in relation to the data recovered from Havanevela.
