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	The Hindu : National : `Rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi script' unearthed at Adichanallur
		A piece of writing has been discovered inside an urn at the Iron Age burial site at Adichanallur, 24 km from Tirunelveli town in Tamil Nadu.
		The script found at Adichanallur could be the name of the hero whose skeleton is in the urn.
		Six trenches dug by the ASI, Chennai Circle, at the Iron Age urn burial site Adichanallur in 2004 yielded a cornucopia: 157 burial urns, 50 of them intact and 15 with human skeletons.
	www.hindu.com /2005/02/17/stories/2005021704471300.htm (911 words)

	Passionate about History
		The 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.
		So Dr. Satyamurthy, who was the director of excavation at Adichanallur, has proposed that material culture must have travelled from Adichanallur to the Deccan.
		But when I analysed the Adichanallur pottery discovered by Rea, which are in the Government Museum, Chennai, and the recently excavated pottery at Adichanallur, I found that about 25 per cent of the pottery, especially those with white dots, had travelled from Adichanallur to other sites.
	uoregon.edu /~mharrsch/2007/05/recent-finds-support-cultural-spread.html (510 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After all these years the burial complex at Adichanallur now being excavated has yielded pottery and finds which are dated to 1000 BC (box).
		The ‘twin-pots’ retrieved at Adichanallur correspond to descriptions of the ritual found in Tamil Sangam literature.
		"The date of Adichanallur may even be earlier than that of Mangadu [a civilisation discovered near the Ashtamudi Lake in Kollam district, Kerala], that is, prior to 1000 BC," says Satyamurthy.
	www.the-week.com /24sep12/currentevents_article3.htm (1325 words)

	A rare inscription
		It was written on the inside of an urn that held a human skeleton has the potential to upset theories about the date of origin of the Tamil-Brahmi script.
		He was examining photographs of the urns with skeletons to see whether the skeletons had a primary or secondary burial.
		He cut short his journey and returned to Adichanallur to examine the inside of the urn closely.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2213/stories/20050701000307000.htm (422 words)

	varnam - Pictures from Adichanallur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There are some pictures from Adichanallur, near Tirunelveli where 2800 years old human skeletons were found in urns.
		Adichanallur shows the importance given to the dead in the early Tamil society in the mode of burial practice, and that society's socio, economic and religious beliefs." The Hindu
		In the middle of this year some urns dating to about 800 BC were found in Adichanallur near Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu.
	www.varnam.org /blog/archives/2004/07/pictures_from_a.html (440 words)

	The Hindu : National : Iron Age habitational site found at Adichanallur
		The wall is seen running diagonally across and it is packed with stones in an irregular manner on its outer surface.
		Although several urn burial sites such as at Amirthamangalam and Perumbair, both near Chengalpattu, have been discovered in the State, this is the first time the place where these people lived has been found.
		Epigraphists have tentatively read the writing as "ka ri a ra va [na] ta." An aim of the excavation in 2004 was to locate the habitational site, and co-relate what was found in the burial site with the place where people lived.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2005/04/03/stories/2005040301931400.htm (795 words)

	AI Asia - Archaeological News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At Adichanallur, pottery belonging to the early historic period, which stretches from 3rd century B.C. to 3rd century A.D., was found on the upper layers of the trenches and the urns were found below.
		He said that since the Brahmi script was found together with the skeletons, the date of the script could be determined if they could fix the date of the skeletons.
		They included miniature bowls made of clay that were used in rituals, fl and red wares of megalithic period ranging from the 7th century B.C. to 2nd century A.D., potsherds with graffiti marks, iron spearheads, knife-blades and hopscotches of various shapes including those in perfect circles.
	www.antiquatedideas.com /cgi-antiquatedideas/asia/topic.cgi?forum=36&topic=4 (2287 words)

	varnam - Earlier date for Tamil-Brahmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When the urns containing human skeletons were discovered in Adichanallur in Tamil Nadu, they were initially dated to 800 BC.
		Now one of the urns has been dated to 500 BC and what makes this interesting is the script which was present in the urn.
		Tamil Brahmi scripts have been found in the caves of Jain monks in Tamil Nadu and they were dated to 3rd century BC, thus working with the theory that Buddhist and Jain monks could have bought the Brahmi script to the south.
	varnam.org /blog/archives/2005/02/earlier_date_fo.html (539 words)

	New find at Adichanallur
		Adichanallur find IMHO is a National Geographic special.
		This month's issue of Frontline has three articles on the Adichanallur excavations, which may be of interest to hubbers following this section.
		It is only its location at Adichanallur as a possible ancient inhabitation site which is. If you go to Deccan College in Pune, you will see a lot of these urns from all over South India which seemed to be one way to dispose the dead; other than burning them.
	forumhub.mayyam.com /hub/viewlite.php?t=2853 (2823 words)

	Dravidian India
		He recognises the closer affinities of Adichanallur tombs with those of Crete and {p.51} Cyprus in the crouching position of the dead body, in the Sarcophagi, and in the golden masks and ornaments.
		It is therefore contended that the bronze and iron age culture of Adichanallur is that of the early Dravidians.
		Iyengar further notes correspondences between Harappa and Adichanallur: "The Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa culture agrees with that of Adichanallur in burying the dead in a crouching position in terracotta coffins, and in placing food, drink, wearing apparel, and weapons ready for their service, when they reached another world.
	saxakali.com /southasia/dravidian_india.htm (8788 words)

	Stone Pages Archaeo News: Urn-burials at Adichanallur
		The Adichanallur site’s location close to a lake is similar to that of the urn-burial site at Mangadu in Kollam district.
		Satyamurthy, who carried out the excavation at Mangadu, says: “The burials found at Adichanallur show the trend of an earlier phase, such as coarse pottery and hand-made pottery.
		So that the date of Adichanallur may even be earlier than that of Mangadu.” Scientific analysis using C-14 or the archaeo-magnetic method may confirm dates prior to 1000 BCE.
	www.stonepages.com /news/archives/000622.html (540 words)

	Past excavations
		Rea also discovered a number of bronze figurines of the buffalo, the goat or the sheep, the cock, the tiger, the antelope and the elephant.
		He had this to say about how the dead were interred in the urns at Adichanallur: "In those urns which contained complete skeletons, and which were thus preserved by the lid remaining intact, the position of the bones made it obvious that the body had been set inside in a squatting or sitting position.
		Rea's discovery of gold diadems is intriguing, for gold does not occur at Adichanallur or any nearby place.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2213/stories/20050701000207200.htm (569 words)

	Early Tamil Cultural Influences in South Asia - S.J.Gunasegaram
		As a result of the more recent excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Chittaldrug in Mysore and at Adichanallur further south, the probability that civilisation spread from India to Egypt and Babylon, and not, as it was believed earlier, from the Valley of the Nile or the Euphrates to India, has been strengthened.
		At Adichanallur, an ancient site on the banks of the Tambraparani in the Tinnevely district, extensive prehistoric urn burials and iron implements related to those found in the Philippines and Palestine have been unearthed.
		In 1200 B.C at Adichanallur, the Tamils were found to have cultivated rice, and it was in this region that the iron industry had its origin.
	www.tamilnation.org /heritage/earlyinfluence.htm (6043 words)

	Tamil people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest clear evidence of the presence of the Tamil people in modern Tamil Nadu are the megalithic urn burials, dating from around 1000 BC onwards, which have been discovered at various places in Tamil Nadu, notably Adichanallur.
		These burials conform in a number of details to the descriptions of funerals in classical Tamil literature, and appear to be concrete evidence of the existence of Tamils in southern India during that period.
		Subramanian, T.S. `Rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi script' unearthed at Adichanallur", The Hindu, (16 Feb 2005)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamil_people (5190 words)

	varnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Burrial urns which were 2800 years old were discovered in Adichanallur in Tamil Nadu last year.
		This means that the US-Israeli team which came up with the date of 21,000 BC is not aware of the history of Sri Lanka.
		Last month there were reports of a spectacular archaeological discovery in Adichanallur, near Tirunelveli when 2800 years old human skeletons were found in urns.
	www.varnam.org /blog/archives/history_before_1_ce/index.html (7834 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Prehistoric basis for the rise of civilisation in Sri Lanka and southern India
		The Sri Lankan evidence indicates that there are no settlements associated with the megalithic cemeteries.
		At Adichanallur near Tirunelveli, the Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai Circle, has unearthed about a hundred urns, a dozen of them with human skeletons.
		Very recently, it has been reported that they have found inscriptions on one or more pieces of pottery at Adichanallur.
	www.lankalibrary.com /geo/prehistory.htm (2970 words)

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