Tamil Heritage Trust
presents
by
T.S. Subramanian (Frontline Magazine)
at 5.30pm on Saturday, August 1st, 2015
at Vinoba Hall, Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya, T Nagar.
This lecture by T. S. Subramanian of
Frontline Magazine will focus on the excavations at the Iron
Age/megalithic burial sites of Kodumanal and Porunthal and the Iron Age
burial site of Adichanallur which is not, however, a megalithic burial
site. Adichanallur is more of an urn burial site. The recent excavations
done at Kodumanal and Porunthal by Professor K. Rajan of Pondicherry
University have unearthed many pot-sherds with Tamil-Brahmi script and
revealed the antiquity of bead-making industry in these two sites. The
excavations done at Adichanallur by T. Satyamurthy, who retired as the
Superintending Archaeologist of the ASI, revealed more than 100 urns,
most of them with skeletons. Urn burials at Adichanallur were done in
tiers as well. Dr Satyamurthy re-excavated Adichanallur after a gap of
100 years. Alexander Rea had excavated the site then and came up with a
cornucopia of bronze items, gold ornaments etc..
The talk will also briefly include the
recent excavation of the ASI at the Harappan site of 4MSR in Rajasthan
and the excavations done by the Deccan College, Pune, at the Harapan
sites of Rakhigarhi and Farmana, both in Harayana. It will focus on why
these sites had only Early and Mature phases of the Harappan
civilisation and not its Later phase, and why these sites came up on the
banks of the Ghaggar river, earlier called Saraswati river.
RSVP:
A. Annamalai: Gandhi Study Centre - gandhicentre@gmail.com;
S. Kannan - musickannan@gmail.com; 98414-47974
R. Gopu - writergopu@yahoo.com, 98417-24641
T. Sivasubramanian - siva.durasoft@gmail.com, 98842-94494