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A publication documenting stone creation successful Karikiyoor successful Kil Kotagiri volition beryllium released soon by the State Archaeology Department, said Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu successful the Nilgiris connected Saturday (November 29, 2025).
Mr. Thennarasu was taking portion successful an lawsuit to merchandise the publication “The Nilgiris Archaeology”, curated by Yaakai Heritage Trust, which includes documentation of stone art, burial sites, dolmens, leader stones and inscriptions, arsenic good arsenic the past of the region’s indigenous tribes.
Speaking astatine the event, Mr. Thennarasu commended the efforts undertaken by the Trust successful documenting the sites. “From the British play until today, the Nilgiris has been known for assorted unsocial reasons and the elevation holds important value successful the tract of archaeology. In the district, the indigenous tribes person expressed themselves done hand-painted stone creation passim the ages. From stone paintings came the improvement of chromatic inscriptions,” helium said, adding that akin to the stone creation sites successful Karikiyoor were galore specified sites of humanities and archaeological value crossed the State.
“Efforts person been undertaken to papers stone paintings crossed Tamil Nadu, and the collected information volition beryllium published. As a archetypal step, the documentation connected the Karikiyoor stone paintings volition soon beryllium released. The four-year task is nearing completion,” helium said.
He besides added that the authorities was conducting probe and scientifically documenting practice sites crossed the State. Archaeological studies continue, and galore much astonishing truths astir the antiquity of Tamil civilisation volition travel to light, helium said.
“Alongside authorities departments, younker from Coimbatore are besides performing large enactment by discovering and documenting symbols of our past heritage. Young researchers done the Yaakai Heritage Foundation, person been travelling not lone crossed Tamil Nadu but crossed galore parts of South India since 2017, documenting uncommon humanities symbols, helium pointed out.
He besides stated that the Trust has truthful acold documented hundreds of leader stones, stone paintings astatine implicit 100 sites, burial sites, sculptures and inscriptions crossed the State.
Sudhakar Nalliyappan, president of Yaakai Heritage Trust, and Kumaravel Ramasamy, secretary, Y. Subbarayalu, erstwhile Head of Department of Archaeology and Epigraphy, Tamil University successful Thanjavur, R. Poongundran, archaeologist, and Pavel Bharathi, researcher and laminitis of the Vaigai Archaeological and Cultural Centre, were besides contiguous astatine the event.
The archetypal transcript of the publication was received by the Nilgiris Collector, Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru.
