Dravidam.
अस्ति द्रविडेषु काञ्ची नाम नगरी (asti draviḍeṣu kāñcī nāma nagarī) Daśakumāracarita
13. जरद्द्रविडधार्मिकस्ये- च्छया निसृष्टैः (jarad draviḍa dhārmikasye- cchayā nisṛṣṭaiḥ) K.229.
Draviḍa (द्रविड).—m. 1. The name of a people, Mahābhārata 14, 832. Drāviḍa (द्राविड).—i. e. draviḍa + a, I. adj., f. ḍī, Belonging to the Draviḍas, Mahābhārata 8, 454. Ii. m. pl. = Draviḍa, Mahābhārata 1, 6683. Damila (दमिल) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Draviḍa. That is what became Tamizh.
Damiḷa (दमिऌअ) is the name of an ancient kingdom situated in Dakkhiṇāpatha (Deccan) or "southern district" of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—In the Akitti Jātaka (Jāt., IV, 238) as well as in the Ceylonese chronicles, Dīpavaṃsa and the Mahāvaṃsa, mention is made of the Damiḷaraṭṭha or the kingdom of the Damiḷas. The Damiḷas are, however, identified with the Tamils. Kāviripaṭṭana was a sea-port town in the Damiḷa kingdom which is generally identified either with the Malabar coast or Northern Ceylon.
However, there is no proof if there was a "civilisation" called dravida or damila... there was only vedic civilisation all through this region
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