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Over 500 chromatic property tools, which could day backmost to Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods, person been recovered by a mates of young archaeologists during tract surveys conducted successful Tiruchi, Pudukottai, and Namakkal districts.
The archaeologists, Bharath Krishnamoorthy and K. Pragatheeswaran, person done their station graduation from the University of Madras.
“Based connected typo-technological characteristics, the Palaeolithic implements, predominantly made of quartz, from these districts tin beryllium classified into Lower Palaeolithic and Middle Palaeolithic taste phases,” said Mr. Bharath.
Implements specified arsenic manus axes and cleavers and flakes and cores, including multi-directional discoidal core, were recovered and documented from Kurumbappati, Kallikudi, and Valkaradu adjacent Thuraiyur; Veeramalai, and Nadukattupatti adjacent Manapparai successful Tiruchi district; Mullipatti and Malampatti successful Pudukottai district; and Sarugumalai, Sitharmalai, and Thalaimalai successful Namakkal district. Additionally, the occurrence of microlithic tools suggests a aboriginal prehistoric habitation signifier astatine this sites, Mr. Bharath said.
“These discoveries clasp peculiar value arsenic they correspond immoderate of the earliest reported Palaeolithic sites successful the Central portion of Tamil Nadu. The recognition of lithic assemblages from Tiruchi, Pudukkottai, and Namakkal would lend to filling a large taste spread successful the knowing of prehistoric concern successful this region, which had antecedently remained under-represented successful Palaeolithic research. Together, these sites found the Central portion of Tamil Nadu arsenic an important prehistoric landscape,” helium said.
“On typo-technological basis, the lithic artefacts could beryllium from the Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic periods,” said Jinu Koshy, excavation in-charge, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Madras. “The 2 erstwhile students of the section had recovered bully sites which are caller and not recorded before. These are absorbing sites; truthful acold we person been concentrating connected the Tiruvallur portion (Attirampakkam),” Mr. Koshy added.
