A mesolithic site found in india with a stone circle, I love this stuff.

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Findings from site reveal continuity of habitation

PALAKKAD: The first iron age (megalithic) habitation- cum-burial site being excavated in Kerala at Aanakara in Palakkad district was visited by a team of historians which included the emeritus professor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi Romila Thapar and Prof Kunal Chakroborthy accompanied by the Director of the School of Social Sciences of the Mahatma Gandhi University P M Rajan Gurukkal and Prof K V Kunhikrishnan on Sunday.

An important finding of the excavation at the Aanakara site was that it yielded microlithic tools and implements associated with the mesolithic age which goes to show that there was a continuity of habitation at the site from the mesolithic period.

The archeological excavation at Aanakara is part of the South India Historical Atlas project undertaken by the Director of the School of Social Sciences of the Mahatma Gandhi University P M Rajan Gurukkal.

“Aanakara is the first excavated iron age (megalithic) habitation-cum-burial site in Kerala. At this site we have different megalithic types like umbrella stone, stone circle and urn burials”, said archeologist K P Shajan who has been associated with the project.

He added that the most important feature of the site is the presence of small fragments of pots used in day-to-day life and iron arrowhead and charcoal fragments in the soil layers below the burial which indicate clear human habitation remains.

A stone circle, one umbrella stone and urn burial have been excavated. These burials are secondary in nature and yielded typical megalithic pottery like black and red ware pots and iron implements like trident, hanging oil lamp and a lot of bone fragments.

Umbrella stones are usually found as commemorative monuments without burial remains but here megalithic burial assemblages have been found in it, said Shajan.

The interior of the stone circle is divided into three chambers using granite boulders. Among them two chambers were excavated and in each chamber large urn burials were noticed.

A special feature of these burials are the occurrence of a hanging lamp and burial goods which were found kept in the river sand at the bottom of the urn.