Chennai
If researchers are to be believed, the village, an open-air palaeolithic site, is home to tools fashioned out of stone by hunter-gatherers 16 lakh years ago.
Among the 7,000 stone tools recovered, the archeologists have observed a progressive change in the tool making technique similar to those used by the precursors to modern humans during the stone age. These tools, the archaeologists believe, are between 3,85,000 and 1,72,000 years old, belonging to the Middle Palaeolithic culture.
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