The origins of the memorial stones among the tribal

To trace the origins of the memorial stones among the tribal suggests influence of Hinduism in their traditions or vice versa. There memorial in the tribal region are made of stone and wood. The wood memorial have created debate among scholar that the wood memorial where the earlier memorial and then stone was used. This arguments is based in the idea that stone was durable than wood, however, this has been negated as Elwin states the pillar do not have any association with the megalithic cult as they stand independent or associated with stone menhirs.while ghosa states that the sculptors became scarce and sculpturing became expensive, people might have opted for carved wood memorial and associates memorial with the rock-shelter painting which resemble very closely the memorial art of Korkus

The earliest of the hero stone among the tribal are also called "old” hero stone are found in the region of Baster which pre Rajput and pre Muslim era. They also depict a predominance of Hinduism and other regions and are mostly single paneled. They picture a warrior in foot with bow and arrow, dagger .in the early phase there is no depiction of sati in these stone even though there are 2 miniatures female depicted in 2 stone at Gond fort at Lanji but are considered to be fighting hero. At Basur there are 2 hero stone which illustrates the royal heroes on the horse back  while one has a chatri over him which is similar to Revanta .the distinguishing features is that the hero wear a big ear rings , bead head which clearly classify him as Muriyas.