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    Excavations in Keeladi

    Archaeologists have been busy digging out the treasures


    buried in Keeladi, a village in Sivaganga district of Tamil
    Nadu, and historians and anthropologists are now
    interpreting the rich finds from the Sangam era. This is
    the fifth phase of excavations, and it has revealed many
    more artefacts and engineering designs. The fourth phase
    had established that the antiquities unearthed here could
    date from the 6th century BCE to the 1st century CE.

    The present phase has shed more light, particularly on


    the advanced engineering techniques used then,
    “establishing that there was a culture and civilisation” in
    the region, as one archaeologist puts it. This is the first
    time that such a large-scale excavation on a ‘habitational
    mount’ has been carried out in Tamil Nadu. The
    excavations offer insights into engineering techniques
    that are more than 2,000 years ago. As the Tamil Nadu
    Archaeology Department’s experts dug around the site
    based on a geomagnetism survey, they stumbled upon a
    closed bridge channel enclosed on four sides with bricks
    of various sizes. “Whoever built this seems to have had a
    very good sense of engineering. There are terracotta
    pipes in the pits that we dug; they could have used these
    pipes but they created a curved structure with bricks
    alone to create a closed channel. This would have allowed
    them to control the flow of water and make sure the
    channel did not collapse due to the force of water,” said
    an official from the team.

    Among the findings is an orange carnelian bead engraved


    with the image of a wild boar. Carnelian stones, from the
    quartz family, are not found in Tamil Nadu, but in the
    north-western parts of India. The engraved bead could
    date back 2,000 years, the official said, but further
    studies are needed to confirm it. It hinted at the
    possibility of an ancient north-south trade link. “This is
    like a signature bead. The wild boar may be a totem
    symbol. In the 2018 excavations, we had found some
    bones, one of which was that of a wild boar. It is likely
    there is a connection.” Spot of history: An aerial view of
    the Keeladi excavation site spread over nearly five acres
    in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu. The fifth phase of
    excavations is coming to an end. More than 10,000
    artefacts have been unearthed by the Archaeological
    Survey of India and the Tamil Nadu Archaeology
    Department across the five phases. Keeladi is one of the
    most important archaeological sites discovered in south
    India.

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