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    The document discusses the Neolithic and Iron Age periods in Tamil Nadu, India. During the Neolithic, humans made stone tools through grinding and polishing. An axe head with writing was found. In the Iron Age, humans started using iron and burial sites with urns dating back to around 1000 BCE have been discovered, including one urn with early Tamil-Brahmi script.

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    The document discusses the Neolithic and Iron Age periods in Tamil Nadu, India. During the Neolithic, humans made stone tools through grinding and polishing. An axe head with writing was found. In the Iron Age, humans started using iron and burial sites with urns dating back to around 1000 BCE have been discovered, including one urn with early Tamil-Brahmi script.

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    Neolithic

    In Tamil Nadu, the Neolithic period had its advent around 2500 BCE. Humans of th
    e Neolithic period made their stone tools in finer shapes by grinding and polish
    ing. A Neolithic axe head with ancient writing on it has been found in Tamil Nad
    u.[11] The Neolithic humans lived mostly on small flat hills or on the foothills
    in small, more or less permanent settlements but for periodical migration for g
    razing purposes. They gave the dead proper burials within urns or pits. They wer
    e also starting to use copper for making certain tools or weapons.
    Iron Age
    During the Iron Age humans started using iron for making tools and weapons. The
    Iron Age culture in peninsular India is marked by Megalithic burial sites, which
    are found in several hundreds of places.[12] On the bases of both some excavati
    ons and the typology of the burial monuments, it has been suggested that there w
    as a gradual spread of the Iron Age sites from the north to the south. Comparati
    ve excavations carried out in Adichanallur in Thirunelveli district and in North
    ern India have provided evidence of a southward migration of the Megalithic cult
    ure.[13]
    The earliest clear evidence of the presence of the megalithic urn burials are th
    ose dating from around 1000 BCE, which have been discovered at various places in
    Tamil Nadu, notably at Adichanallur, 24 km from Tirunelveli, where archaeologis
    ts from the Archaeological Survey of India unearthed 157 urns, including 15 cont
    aining human skulls, skeletons and bones, plus husks, grains of rice, charred ri
    ce and Neolithic Celts. One urn has writing inside, which, according to archaeol
    ogists from the Archaeological Survey of India, resembles early Tamil-Brahmi scr
    ipt, confirming it of the Neolithic period 2800 years ago.[14] Adhichanallur has
    been announced as an archaeological site for further excavation and studies.[15
    ][16]
    Mentions of the political situation of Tamil Nadu before the common era are foun
    d in Ashoka's edicts dated c 300 BCE and, vaguely, in the Hathigumpha inscriptio
    n dated c.150 BCE. The earliest epigraphical evidence in the Tamil country are t
    hat of the Pandya king Kadungon (c. 560 590 CE) who displaced the Kalabhras from t
    he Pandyas country. Nilakanta Sastri, A history of South India, pp 105, 137

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