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Research scholars astatine enactment astatine the excavation tract astatine Kamanur successful Kodaikanal.
The Archaeological Survey of India’s Excavation Branch–VI, Mysuru, has launched an excavation astatine an Iron Age burial tract astatine Kamanur adjacent Kodaikanal connected the little Palani hills successful Dindigul territory successful Tamil Nadu.
The excavation is portion of a three-year task that would screen a fewer different sites excessively successful the Palani hills.
“Cists, dolmens, urn burials and pit burials person been identified successful the region. During vegetation clearance, a burial analyzable was discovered, pursuing which the excavation was proposed,” said R .N. Kumaran, Superintending Archaeologist, Excavation Branch–VI, Mysuru, and the Excavation Director told The Hindu.
“A fewer sites adjacent Perumalmalai successful the Kodaikanal portion were excavated during the pre-Independence period. In 2004 and 2006, Prof. K. Rajan of Tamil University, Thanjavur, conducted excavations astatine Thandikudi. This marks the archetypal clip that the ASI is undertaking excavation successful this hilly region,” Mr. Kumaran added.
The portion had been explored since the assemblage play and respective Iron Age sites person been identified. “We excavated 1 specified tract astatine Thandikudi with bully results. Kamanur is simply a promising tract and the existent excavation taken up by ASI present and different sites would bring retired a clearer representation of the taste practices of the radical who had settled determination successful the portion implicit 3000 years ago,” Mr.. Rajan told The Hindu.
It is absorbing that radical of antithetic societal groups had settled connected the hills, astir 3,000 feet supra mean Mean Sea Level, seemingly drawn by the gross brought successful by spices specified arsenic pepper, Mr. Rajan said.
The excavation was inaugurated with tract clearance works connected January 21 by Murugesan, Village Headman, Kamanur; Magesh, President, Thandikudi panchayat; Ganesan, Traditional/Hereditary Head of the Palani Hills and representatives from the villages of Kamanur, Mangalamkombu, and Thandikudi.
The villagers were blessed implicit the motorboat of the excavation and wanted ASI to papers the full archaeological wealthiness of the Palani Hills, particularly the Kodaikanal region, Mr. Kumaran said.
P. Aravazhi, Superintendent Archaeologist (in-charge), and A. Muthukumar, Assistant Superintending Archaeologist, ASI, Tiruchi Circle, and M. Saranya, Assistant Superintending Archaeologist, ASI, Bangalore Circle, were present.
