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New carvings of a falcon and a snake person been identified connected the stone aboveground of Valiyapara astatine Erikkulam successful Madikai panchayat successful Kasaragod, placing the tract firmly connected the archaeological map.
Researchers examining the past Thoranam stone coating reported that the figures, apt chopped with a crisp tool, were recovered connected a ample stone surrounded by grassland.
The find was made during fieldwork by Nandakumar Koroth, past teacher and researcher astatine the Nehru Arts and Science College, Kanhangad, section archaeologist Satheesan Kaiyanam and archaeology students from the University of Baroda, Anagha Sivaramakrishnan and Asna Jiji. A faint human-like look has besides been traced nearby.
Experts enactment that akin carvings look connected laterite stone formations from Ratnagiri to Wayanad, wherever much than a 1000 engravings recovered adjacent the Konkan seashore person been dated to implicit 12,000 years. Researchers accidental the Erikkulam carvings apt picture a hank swooping successful hunt of prey and a snake moving done grass, etched by aboriginal inhabitants during leisure time. The falcon appears flying, 1 limb stretched arsenic if preparing to onshore connected a branch. A chromatic depiction of a serpent had besides been reported earlier astatine Pampukothipara beneath the Nileswaram rock.
Recent surveys person uncovered further features, including implicit 10 carved carnal footprints astatine Ummichi and implicit 60 prints connected a stone adjacent Cheemeni. Last year, much than 40 pairs of footprints were identified astatine Kanhirapoyil. With the latest findings, Kasaragod territory present has 2 documented stone engravings. Researchers pass that without timely conservation, these relics hazard irreversible loss.
Kasaragod is besides considered affluent successful megalithic heritage, with astir a 1000 monuments linked to the ‘Mahashila’ culture. Earlier this year, bony fragments and past objects surfaced during Jal Jeeven Mission pipeline work, believed to day backmost astir 2,000 years.
At Manimoola successful Badaduka, the excavations utilizing earthmovers revealed rock-cut chambers successful which artefacts, including clay pots, a lid resembling a ample vase, a three-stone robust stove stand, and remnants of robust tools specified arsenic a penknife, were found. The beingness of undecayed bony fragments, considered uncommon successful laterite rock-cut enclosure sites, has been described arsenic a important find. Similar remains person antecedently been recovered from the Megalithic Nannangadi burial sites crossed South India.
