Southern India holds lots of archaeological sites to be excavated (even older sites) compared to North India. In fact, In India the first archaeological excavation was happened in Tamil Nadu (Adichanallur site which is 3000 years older).
But from Independence till today ……. In Tamil Nadu & Kerala, archaeological survey of India not even conducted 1/10th of excavation process conducted in North India. Even though The Excavation sites can be easily Identifiable and visible ………………… (In Tamil Nadu and Kerala, often people find out the older pots with tamil brami or with griffti scripts and other Archaeological products while digging for building constructions)
When Indus valley Civilization was found in 1920’s the peoples start excavating the nearer sites to know the trace of migration of the Indus valley people. Central government move their excavation towards ganges valley as they cannot found nothing they end their excavation process. They are not even ready to think (consider) to expand their excavation program towards south , as lots of theory says they migrated to south.
ADICHANALLUR EXCAVATION
The Adichanallur Archaeological site (near Madurai) which is proved to be 3100 year old civilization (by carbon dating the archaeological product of the site) before 50 years (1950’s - 1960’s), but after that till now even though it is the oldest civilization ever found in India (3100 years old) after Indus valley Civilization (4500 years old) archaeological survey of India din’t even conducted 1 face of excavation in adichanallur.
Today the most valuable archaeological sites of Tamil Nadu were urbanized due to the lack of consecration of ASI (archaeological survey of India) towards south
KEELADI EXCAVATION
Before 10 years when the keeladi archaeological site was found and the same carelessness and ignorant behavior of ASI Irritates and angered Tamil Nadu people.
ASI (archaeological survey of India) said there is nothing to be excavated and went back to their work of searching “Dwaraka” at Gulf of Kutch and Gulf of Combat (which was they doing for past 50 years)
But this time Tamil Nadu people unlike previous, they start to giving pressure to the state and central government, Lot of tamil cultural organisation and the voluntary advocates filed a case in court demand to resume the excavation process in Keeladi.
How ever both central government and ASI din’t worry or react to it in any way, having no choice state government decided to fund the excavation (Not with ASI) with Archaeological survey of Tamil Nadu and begin the excavation process and done three excavations (3rd, 4th and 5th face of excavations) just with 42 lacks fund and “finally found that it is civilization which is 2600 years old (pre sangam era)”
Not only that the most unexpected turning point is the Archaeologist found the script called griffti which is the evolution of Indus valley script found in keeladi excavation and believe to give a path to decipher (understanding or interpreting) the Indus valley script which cannot be decipher by any body in the world for past 100 years (that will allows the Indians to know mysterious history and the reason for mysterious migrations happens 5000 years ago)
It is the report that has been reported just after 1 acre of excavation, (where keeladi archaeological site is 105 acres) still there are 104 acres of land are there to be excavated.
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