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  • Madrasian Culture Benchmark 1.5 Million Year Attirambakkam

    The ancient history of India is astounding especially for those who have been fed on a diet of history of India by Muslim Invaders, Britishers and Indian liberal secular Historians. Though research has been carried out in India to find its antiquity, though it is minimal,the results are not known to public in general.

    I have been writing ,in this blog,about the antiquity of Bharatvarsha, Hinduism,Tamil and Sanatan Dharma.

    I have been and am providing foreign sources to back up my claims,though there are plenty of Indian sources,because most people, especially from India, seem to lend more credibility to sources,though Indian sources are ancient and equally ,if not more authentic.

    I have also written about the ancient archeological sites India,relating to Sanatana Dharma and Tamils.

    One such is about the archeological site at Athirambakkam,near Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India.This site was the home of an advanced Tamil civilization and it is dated to be 1.5 Million years, using Cosmic Ray Exposure Dating dating

    This site is a benchmark in Archeology as the group of sites yielding tools of this period,old stone age ,is called Madrasian Culture,so named after the capital of the state ,near which these tools were found.

    I have seen sites which, though appear to be neutral ,question and cast doubts on even proven archeological finds.

    The information on Athirambakkam stating that it was 1.5 Million years old was sought to discredited by saying it was an error and it was only 26,000 years old.Similarly the dating of Poompuhar,Tamil Nadu,date,which is about 20,000 years old,this also is sought to be brushed aside. I am providing information on Madrasian Culture fetal below,my article on Athirambakkam and Poompuhar antiquity.Poompuhar.

    Poompuhar Find Sets Tamil,Hinduism By Atleast 20000 Years.  https://www.google.com/amp/s/ramanan50.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/poompuhar-find-sets-tamilhinduism-by-atleast-20000-years/amp/

    Those who want to be an Ostrich about Indian history,may continue to be so,for world does not become dark if cats close their eyes.

    ‘The Madrasian was named for its type site of Attirampakkam, near to the city of Madras (now known as Chennai), discovered by British archaeologist and geologist Robert Bruce Foote in 1863.[2][3] The oldest tools at Attirampakkam have been dated to 1.5 million years ago’

    On 25th March 2011, the Indian and world archaeological community was blown away by a small, two-page article in the journal Science, one of the most prestigious international scientific journals on the planet. The article announced with zero fanfare that there was now irrefutable proof of the existence of an Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South Asia. In layman’s terms, the antiquity of human ancestors colonising Southern India was now a solid 1.51 million years ago, if not earlier – older than any dates of such a colonisation of Europe….https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livehistoryindia.com/amp/story/cover-story%252F2020%252F01%252F13%252Frobert-foote-a-stone-age-legacy

    Attirambakkam ,near Chennai Tools over 1. 5 million years.

    Million Year Tamil Site Pallavaram Chennai Dated Report. In an independent research study, Petraglia and his colleagues have analysed Acheulian tools in India that appear to be only 120,000 years old. The two findings suggest that the Acheulian toolmakers inhabited India for 1.4 million years – from 1.5 million years ago to 120,000 years ago.

     

  • Million Year Tamil site Near Chennai Ramani’s blog Info on Archeology, Now in Nature Magazine

    Million Year Tamil site Near Chennai Ramani’s blog Info on Archeology, Now in Nature Magazine

    I have been writing on the antiquity of Sanatana Dharma and Tamil and that they are between Thirty thousand to a Million years old.

    This I have been researching for the past nine years and have published articles based on credible sources from around the world, from different languages, archeoanthropology, archaeology, Astronomy, Infrared dating, Plate tectonics, World literature, Etymology, Cultural similarities between various races, customs.

    Some of the recovered stone tips, such as the one seen in the upper right of this image, have narrower bottom portions called tangs. Tangs would have made it easier to attach the points to handles, aiding in spear-making. PHOTOGRAPH BY SHARMA CENTRE FOR HERITAGE EDUCATION, India. Image
    Some of the recovered stone tips, such as the one seen in the upper right of this image, have narrower bottom portions called tangs. Tangs would have made it easier to attach the points to handles, aiding in spear-making. PHOTOGRAPH BY SHARMA CENTRE FOR HERITAGE EDUCATION, INDIA

    The present date assigned to Rig Veda is 5114 BC and Tamil about 3000 BC. This, I found to be incorrect and based on my research from credible sources I suggested that Tamil is one Million years old and Vedas, as they are quoted by ancient Tamil, was earlier to Tamil. But the Vedas quite Tamil!

    So I took the position that both Tamil and Vedas are so old that it is impossible for me to find out which one was earlier :Both of them are at least million years old.

    Despite research by scholars, both from India and abroad, efforts have been made by the influential to suppress the evidence or call these studies as unscientific.

    I have a follower of this blog, who is an archaeologist who was denied permission to dig at Kurukshetra, because she was following a lead from me to find artifacts from Kurukshetra which would yield proof for Mahabharatha War. When I talked to the gentleman at Delhi, who was with the archeology department, who incidentally is a follower of Ramani’s blog, told me that he has oral instructions not to permit archaeological studies which might yield evidence that might be older than 5000Years!

    However thanks to Internet, one can not easily hide facts for long. A finding by archaeologists indicating the Antiquity of Tamil was not made available or publicised. Thanks to Internet, information can not be suppressed. The information was published in the Science in 2011

    . Lamenting this I wrote an article three years ago about the study by a team of archeologists on a site near Chennai about the antiquity of Tamils. Now the findings of these archaeologists have been published in Nature, the prestigious magazine for research. Here it is. ‘

    The discovery, described in Nature on Wednesday, pushes back the start of what’s called the Middle Paleolithic culture in the region by more than a hundred thousand years. That, in turn, could reshape how scientists view the global spread of hominins—humans and their ancient relatives—before modern humans migrated out of Africa some 60,000 years ago.

    Stone tools found in South India

    The new evidence suggests that a Middle Palaeolithic culture was present in India around 385,000 years ago — roughly the same time that it is known to have developed in Africa and in Europe. Middle Palaeolithic period is considered an Millionimportant

    cultural phase associated with modern humans and Neanderthals as well as other archaic hominins. Stone tools of this period are used by scientists as proxy for studies of early human behaviour.

    The prehistoric stone tools excavated from Attirampakkam village about 60 kilometers from Chennai push back the period when populations with a Middle Palaeolithic culture may have inhabited India. The new study appeared in international scientific journal Nature on Wednesday. (31 January, 2018.)

    http://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/ancient-stone-age-tools-found-in-tamil-nadu-suggest-reframing-of-out-of-africa-theories-4329961.html/amp

    Research paper Link in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25444.epdf?referrer_access_token=SekmVmbJtzBMrNuXXh_UVtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NJ7TiKM5a9H3w098XWhhWBtLzjXFhaUZSKMeMqZ6ROTnAqKt5lvdWtt1JKb3O3R4qKq_tp-KPZhhmRcacgZ8pNbuK4ZsHqOcF9nlk5YUFLiQYeRkRM8dXm30aO5uRBXkpILGUYY7yr3XUzUokupc15&tracking_referrer=news.nationalgeographic.com

    ‘Springer Nature wants researchers to share content easily and legally. Our Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative means that links to view-only, full-text subscription research articles can be posted anywhere – including on social media platforms, author websites and in institutional repositories – so researchers can share research with colleagues and general audiences.‘

    http://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/sharedit

    ‘ My article on this, three years ago. ‘

    I posted an article that the Tamils lived around 74,000 years ago and that too near Chennai.

    I forgot to provide the Link.

    Scroll down for Video.

    This led to the speculation that I have been providing information not backed up by facts.

    Readers of this site know well that I never post information without evidence nor providing information without authentic links.

    I forgot in the above case.

    Million year old Tamil site near Chennai.Million year old Tamil site near Chennai.

    Skeptics who were /are critical of my research may criticise Nature now..

  • Stone Age India Information, Sites, Photos

    Sometime back I saw a post in Tumblr about Hinduism ‘This Shit has happened before’ ridiculing Indian Philosophy and History.

    If there is Shit and it had happened there is nothing wrong in stating the facts, even if it is shit.

    Much before the Western Civilisation was even thought of India, under the Name of Bharat was in Existence as a highly developed Culture.

    I am attempting to present some facts and sites for those who are curious and especially for those who have been brain washed into believing  that it was the West that gave India its Technology and civilised behaviour(?)

    For more,please read posts under India,Hinduism,Indian Philosophy and Astrophysics.

    India.
    India.

    The Stone Age the Stone Age in India begins with the Paleolithic (early Stone Age) and terminates after the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age). The Paleolithic dates back to the geological era of Middle Pleistocene. Paleolithic sites abound in Peninsular India, and are found more prominently at Pallavaram in Tamil Nadu, Hunsgi in Karnataka, Kuliana in Orissa, Didwana in Rajasthan, and Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh.

    Stone Age in India began with Early Stone Age (called Paleolithic) and ended up with the Middle Stone Age (called Mesolithic). Remains of the Homo erectus in the Narmada Valley in Central India show the presence of human life in India since middle Pleistocene, which is around 200,000 to 500,000 years ago.

    The Mesolithic period in Indian subcontinent started around 30,000 years ago, covering a time span of 25,000 years. Bhimbetka Petroglyphs (10 cupules and a single groove) is the oldest (c. 29,000 BCE) known Stone Age art that belongs to first permanent settlement of human being. It is found in Madhya Pradesh, Central India (quartzite Auditorium rock shelter at Bhimbetka). Traces of Neolithic period have been found in Gulf of Khambat in India. Late Neolithic culture was flourished in Indus Valley region from 6000 to 2000 BCE and in southern India from 2800 to 1200 BCE.

    India in the Stone Age .Map.
    Map of Stone Age India.

    Recent genetic research of people across the globe suggests that roughly 45,000 to 20,000 years ago, one of the most dramatic population booms after humanity dispersed from Africa occurred in southern Asia, leading to “the highest population densities in the world in prehistory,” explains Michael Petraglia, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford in England.

    BETTER BLADES: Primitive stone axes, found at the Jwalapuram site in India [top row], dominate until about 38,000 years ago, when the blades became smaller and more sophisticated [bottom row]. Each segment in the scale bar at the bottom represents one centimeter. Image: Kurnool District Archaeological Project.

    After studying mitochondrial data from people in India and neighboring regions, Petraglia and archaeologist Ravi Korisettar of Karnatak University in Dharwad, India, and their collaborators refined the timing of this population boom to between 35,000 and 28,000 years ago. “Why this population expansion happened is a bit of a mystery,” Petraglia says.

    To investigate both the potential causes and effects of this population boom, Petraglia and his colleagues scoured existing archaeological evidence in south Asia. They found that whereas 153 sites of human occupation were found dating back to the middle Paleolithic, or roughly 300,000 years ago, past studies had uncovered some 400 sites dating back to the late Paleolithic, or about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago. The researchers suggest the greater number of late Paleolithic sites support the genetic suggestions of a population boom.

    After delving into a site at Jwalapuram in southern India, which has preserved artifacts spanning the past 78,000 years, the scientists also discovered signs of technological innovation at roughly the same time as the population boom. Until 38,000 years ago, blades made of stone flakes were squat or relatively large. But afterward a new kind of blade came to the forefront—small, elongated “microliths” just four centimeters in length or less, with triangular, crescent or trapezoidal shapes. Similar findings were seen during the population boom at the Patne site on the west coast of India and at the Fa Hien Cave site in Sri Lanka.(scientific american)

    Palaeolithic Age.

    Palaeolithic India.
    Local workers sift through Paleolithic deposits at the Billa Surgam Caves of Andhra Pradesh, first excavated in the 19th century. Now, as then, aggressive bees occasionally threaten the excavation. The caves were once thought to hold Upper Paleolithic deposits–a conclusion that an international team of archaeologists is questioning. (Samir S. Patel)

    The great alchemy of prehistoric archaeology is the way it conjures our story–of modern humans, that is–from bits of stone and bone. But the tale of our evolution and migration to every corner of the planet is filled with gaps and guesswork. Scholars have been trying for decades to make sense of it. Much of their focus for the Middle and Upper Paleolithic eras, from roughly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago, has been on Africa, Europe, and the Levant (eastern Mediterranean). University of Oxford archaeologist Mike Petraglia sees an injustice there, which he and a diverse team of researchers from three continents are working to rectify. Specifically, they believe that India deserves a central place in our understanding of the Paleolithic. Their evidence suggests that modern humans arrived there rather early and thrived under some unusually grim conditions.

    The Mesolithic sites far outnumber the Paleolithic ones, and are located all over the country. Synonymous with the advanced hunting, fishing, and food-gathering economy, Mesolithic usually corresponds to the immediate post-Pleistocene or early Holocene (about 10,000 years ago) period. The beginning of the disposal of dead, and the formation of band level society characterized this period. The early rock paintings depicting hunting and ritual scenes are the period’s most remarkable legacies.

    Sources:

    http://www.indiasite.com/archaeology/

    http://archive.archaeology.org/1001/abstracts/stone_age_india.html

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