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| Some pottery parallels |
| T. Satyamurthy presenting a pot with a long neck and flared rim excavated at Adichanallur by the Archaeological Survey of India in 2003 and 2004,
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| INDIA
, 25-May-2007
0:30:27 AM |
| Several pieces of ancient pottery excavated at Adichanallur near Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu in 2003 and 2004 have a remarkable and surprising similarity to pottery found at Jorwe in Maharashtra in the 1950s, and later at Hallur and Tekkalakota in Karnataka, and T. Kallupatti near Madurai, archaeologists have determined. These findings point to the possible spread of material culture from the south to the Deccan, an expert has proposed.
The Adichanallur pottery, which look like those from the Deccan, include a big pot with a high neck and a flared rim, pot lids with white dots in linear design, thin beakers, and thin walled black and red pots.
Adichanallur is an Iron Age site. Iron Age in south India is dated from 1,000 to 300 B.C. Alexander Rea, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, excavated in Adichanallur between 1889 and 1905 and found artefacts including bronze figurines, gold diadems and pottery.
In Jorwe, in Ahmadnagar district in the Deccan, H.D. Sankalia, Professor of Proto-Indian and Ancient Indian History, Deccan College Research Institute, Pune, undertook excavations in the 1950s and found pottery including thin-walled pots, pots with spouts, and flat bronze axes.
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