Excavations in Tamil Nadu

Question 1

The excavations are from?

Answer 1

Mayiladumparai near
Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu. it is an important site with cultural
material dating back between the Microlithic (30,000
BCE) and Early Historic (600 BCE) ages.

Question 2

What is the significance of the excavations?

Answer 2

Recent carbon dating of excavated finds in Tamil
Nadu pushes evidence of iron being used in India back
to 4,200 years ago [2172 BCE].

Before this, the earliest evidence of iron use was
from 1900-2000 BCE for the country, and from 1500
BCE for Tamil Nadu.

Question 3

Other important findings:

Answer 3

> neolithic phase in TN began before 2200 BCE, based on
a cultural deposit of 25 cm below the dated level.

> black and red ware
pottery was introduced in the late Neolithic phase
itself, rather than the widely held belief that this
occurred in the Iron Age.

Question 4

Trace of iron in Indus Valley civilisation

Answer 4

There is no known record of iron being used in
the Indus Valley, where copper was first utilized
by Indians (1500 BCE).

Question 5

Tamil Brahmi script.

Answer 5

The Tamil Brahmi scripts were once believed to
have originated around 300 BCE, until a landmark
finding in 2019 pushed the date back to 600 BCE where iron technology led to massive
production triggered by socio-economic changes.

This dating narrowed the gap between the
Indus Valley civilisation and Tamilagam/South
India’s Sangam Age.

Question 6

The diff stone ages

Answer 6

paleolithic, mesolithic, neolithic and megalithic

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