Chennai

Oldest site of stone artefacts near the city

Attirampakkam, a village located about 65 km west-northwest of Chennai, is a classic site in the history of Indian archeology and is known to be one of the oldest sites to contain stone artefacts.

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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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