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A “centre” for sharpening polished Neolithic (stone) tools made about 5,000 year...
Ancient Tamil Civilization: Muziris papyrus A papyrus document that mentions...
டிச. 27: தமிழ் ஆட்சிமொழிச் சட்டம் நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டநாள். டிசம்பர் 27, 1956 இல் தம...
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Posted: 27 Dec 2014 05:51 PM PST

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Posted: 27 Dec 2014 06:20 AM PST

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A “centre” for sharpening polished Neolithic (stone) tools made about 5,000 year...

Posted: 27 Dec 2014 05:29 AM PST

A "centre" for sharpening polished Neolithic (stone) tools made about 5,000 years ago has been found near the Keezhanur hamlet on the Javadi hills in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu. The "centre" is a bedrock in the middle of a rivulet, about a km from Keezhanur, with 21 grooves. It is in these grooves on the rock surface that the Neolithic man sharpened the edges of his polished stone axes when they got blunted after usage in cultivation. The shallow, trough-shaped grooves were formed by his constantly sharpening the tools against the rock surface.

R. Ramesh, a field researcher under the University Grants Commission-Special Assistance Programme, Department of History, Pondicherry University, found these grooves on February 16 during explorations on the Javadi hills, five km north of Pudur Nadu. This is the first time that grooves used for sharpening stone axes have been found in Tamil Nadu. They have been found at Sangnakallu-Kupagal in Bellary district, Karnataka.

Mr. Ramesh also found 75 polished stone axes of the Neolithic period collected by Keezhanur villagers on the fields near the rivulet. The villagers have kept these stone tools, along with ordinary stones, near a Ganesh temple and worship them as " sami kal " (divine stones). It was these "divine stones" that Mr. Ramesh first found and the villagers told him about the bed-rock with grooves which, they believed, were formed by the cattle kneeling on the rock and drinking water from the rivulet. They call the boulder kuzhi eruthu parai . When the researcher reached the bedrock, he found 10 grooves there and informed K. Rajan, Professor, Department of History, Pondicherry University, about them. Dr. Rajan told him to clean the surface and 21 grooves were revealed.

A week later, a team comprising Mr. Ramesh, Jinu Koshy of the Madras Christian College, M. Prasanna of the Archaeological Survey of India, T. Thangadurai and K. Mathivanan of Tamil University, Thanjavur, and V. Thukkan and G. Pauldurai of Pondicherry University visited the site and documented the grooves.

Dr. Rajan said, "The cultural transformation from food gathering to food production is considered a revolution in human history that happened during the Neolithic times. These tools represent the symbol of beginning of agricultural production in south India that took place about 5,000 years ago." Human beings stayed in one place, observed the seasons and started doing agriculture. Dr. Rajan said the tools attained their final shape after passing through four stages: chiselling, pecking, grounding and polishing. The tools got smoothened after being constantly rubbed against the rocks. More rubbing led to their becoming polished tools. Since the Neolithic man constantly used these axes for cutting trees and plants, or digging out tubers from the soil, their sharp, working edges got blunted.

The polished stone tools belonged to two varieties: axes and adzes. While axes were used for cutting trees and plants, the adzes were used for ploughing. The adzes were tied to wooden staff and used for ploughing. After the advent of the Iron Age (circa 1,000 BCE), iron ploughs were made.

Dr. Rajan said that since stone axes belonging to the first three stages of their manufacture, viz chiselling, pecking and grounding were not available near Keezhanur, these tools must have been manufactured somewhere. During farming, these stone tools' sharp edges got blunted. When they were sharpened on the bedrock for re-use, grooves were formed.

In Tamil Nadu, Neolithic settlements have been found at Paiyampalli in Dharmapuri, Mayilaadumparai and Kappalavadi in Krishnagiri, and Appukallu in Vellore districts.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/bedrock-on-which-neolithic-man-sharpened-stone-tools-found-in-tn/article4575216.ece
— with Alangayam Seithigal.

Ancient Tamil Civilization: Muziris papyrus A papyrus document that mentions...

Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:13 AM PST

Ancient Tamil Civilization:

Muziris papyrus

A papyrus document that mentions a loan agreement made by an Egyptian merchant and a merchant in Muziris, for exporting Gangetic Nard, ivorys and textiles was discovered in Egypt in 1980 and first published in 1985. It is now preserved in a Vienna Museum. This second century CE document, is known as the Muziris papyrus or the Vienna papyrus,

That Egyptian merchant gave this agreement to the Roman government as a guarantee for a loan That is how this agreement survived through the ages. This discovery has opened a strong base to ancient international and TRADE laws in particular and has been studied at length by economists, lawyers as well as historians.

In India, the ports of Barbaricum (modern Karachi), Barygaza, Muziris in Kerala, Korkai, Kaveripattinam and Arikamedu on the southern tip of India were the main centers of this TRADE, along with Kodumanal, an inland city.

Sangam literature

A tantalizing description of Muziris is in the Akananooru, an anthology of early Tamil poems in the Sangam Literature, poem no. 149.

The beautiful warships of the Yavanas come, to the prosperous and beautiful Muchiri (Muziris) splashing the white foams of 'Chulli' (Periyar River) the big river, and then return laden with 'curry' (Black pepper) paying for it in GOLD.

Muziris Papyrus

http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1719274#Muziris_papyrus

Ancient Roman Settlement in India

http://pazhayathu.blogspot.in/2009/03/roman-empire-soldierssettlements-in.html

http://www.nasrani.net/2007/04/08/news-analysis-on-follow-up-on-muziris-pattanam-excavations-iv-muziris-heritage-project/

http://historicalleys.blogspot.in/2010/06/introducing-muziris-papyrus.html

Learn about 'Muziris Papyrus'

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-educationplus/learn-about-muziris-papyrus/article3671116.ece

In Search of Muziris - Rajan Gurukkal and Dick Whittaker

http://www.journalofromanarch.com/v14_first%20pages/lo-res%20PDFs/v14_18%20Gurukkal.pdf

பேபிரஸ் (தாளில் எழுதப்பட்ட கையெழுத்துப்படி)

வியன்னா அருங்காட்சியகத்தில் உள்ள 'பேபிரஸ்' எனப்படும் பண்டைய தாளில் எழுதப்பட்ட கி.பி. முதல் நூற்றாண்டு ஆவணத்தில் முசிறி வணிகன் ஒருவன் கப்பலில் ஏற்றிச் சென்ற வாசனைப் பொருள், தந்தப் பொருள், துணிகள் பற்றிய செய்திகளும். அவற்றின் எடையும் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது. ஒரு கப்பலில் 150 வணிகரின் பொருள்கள் இருந்தன என்று கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.

டிச. 27: தமிழ் ஆட்சிமொழிச் சட்டம் நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டநாள். டிசம்பர் 27, 1956 இல் தம...

Posted: 27 Dec 2014 03:12 AM PST

டிச. 27: தமிழ்
ஆட்சிமொழிச் சட்டம்
நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டநாள்.

டிசம்பர் 27, 1956 இல்
தமிழகத்தில் தமிழ் அலுவல்
மொழி என்பது சட்டபூர்வமாக
ஆனது. இன்றைய
தினத்தை நினைவுகூர்வோம்.