#adichanallur #TamilNadu #tamirabaranicivilization
This site was first excavated by ASI in 1876. Dr.Jagor, German.
Finds include utensils, iron weapons (knives, sword blades and hatchets)
And bones.
All the artefacts were taken away by him to Berlin.
What's very interesting is that NO DETAILS OF HIS COLLECTION ON ADICHANALLUR IS AVAILABLE.
His other collections are recorded and displayed in the museum.
Then Mr.Alexander rea carried out studies from 1899 to 1905.
Findings include bones, Pottery, vessels,diadems and metal artefacts.
Currently, his collections are the only documented source of the site.
He was of the view that the site belonged to pandyas. A poto tamil race.
A mother goddess figurine was found. And no other religious proofs.
Now you get another reason why this site was not given importance.
RELIGION
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Highly Skilled bronze ornaments and animal figurines.
Currently, the swords are in Chennai museum. Dr.shrada has made extensive research on it.
The world famous #Damascus sword is from adichanallur.
Ppl are still researching on it's making. Even nanotechnology is being proposed.
Their findings on few skulls was that it had resemblance to ppl of tamil &Telugu.
Their conclusion -only site with extensive results at that point of time.
After 1905, T.sathyamurthy(ASI) carried out excavation only in 2004. That too bcoz of an NGO.
100 years they forgot this site. Why?
He found 165 urns, with 3 bearing Tamil brahmi or tamizhi inscriptions.
That's the end of excavations by ASI in adichanallur.
In 2019, after the intervention of high court. 2 samples.
Let me remind you among 100s, only two were sent for dating. And
they dated back to c.9 BC and c.6 BC.
Mr.kennedy (Cornell, NY) regarded the site as key stone of human race formation.
He compiled research works.
His essay was published in 1986 titled "Hauntings at adichanallur: an Anthropological ghost story".
A skull similar to australoids and another to Grimaldi (Stone age skeletal remains in Italy) (zuckermann 1930)
Skeletal remains belonged to australoids and Mediterranean races (Gupta and Chatterjee 1963).
Among the 170 skeletal remains
35% was caucasoid
30% was mongoloid
14% negroid
5% australoid
(Known four primitive human races till date)
8% dravidian
8% mixed traits
So thus it is an cosmopolitan cemetery.
#JustAsking
Who are they?
If only 10% reveals this much, then what about the entire site?
Why any govt doesn't support this study?
Why it's not given the same attention as IVC?
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION was found only in 1921. And is studied for 100 long years.
Long before it adichanallur and #arikamedu were discovered.
But ASI didn't show any interest. Why?
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