A recent archaeological study has found signs that there was human
habitation in the hilly and forested tracts of Purulia, Bankura and West
Midnapore districts — regions that almost coincide with the modern day
jangalmahal — for the last one lakh years.
The discovery is significant because in the prehistoric period, human
settlements were rare as men led nomadic lives moving from one place to
another depending on the availability of food.
“During our project over the past couple of years, we have found the
existence of a micro blade industry in and around the Ayodhya hills
area, which takes the history of the area back to the Late Pleistocene
period,” Bishnupriya Basak of the department of archaeology at Calcutta
University said at a seminar at the Indian Museum on Wednesday.
In archaeological terminology, micro blade signifies small stone
tools that were typically chipped off from stones and used for various
purposes from hunting to digging the earth.
The Late Pleistocene period commenced between 20,000 and 10,000 years
BC. This was the time when humans started making and using small tools
made of stones. Earlier, relics of large size stone tools of the early
stone era, which date back to 80,000 and 1,00,000 years, were found in
Purulia.
According to experts, the discovery of these two types of tools makes
the crucial connection that prehistoric men settled down in this region
and perhaps did not migrate.
Basak and her team discovered relics of human civilisation in the Ayodhya hills of Purulia in 2011-12. [...] hindustantimes.com
jueves, 12 de septiembre de 2013
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