Archaeologists always consider and explore social patterns, culture, political behaviors and boundaries of ancient society by using material culture which is geographically located. They are always tries to interpret those ancient human behavior patterns according to geographical location. However, this interpretation could not be realized properly by the lack of analysis. Recent advancement of GIS and archaeology spatial analysis become more powerful tool. It is very strong argument in recent archaeology, that human behavior is patterned. Numerous spatial studies state that importance of spatial patterns when study ancient human behavior. In this paper trying to give an explanation for the spatial distribution pattern in the selected area. The area is situated in North Central province of Sri Lanka. The Yan Oya Middle Basin consists of a massive amount of ancient burials. According to the archaeological evidence, the area is belonging to the protohistoric period (1300-400 BC) In this study main focus is on the mortuary remains to belong in the proto-historic period and specifically on the megalithic burials of this period and their positioning in the archaeological landscape of the Yan Oya river basin.
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