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Deccan chronicle dt 7/17

 

 

9,500-yr-old site found

 

 

New Delhi, July 18: Researchers at the National

Inst-itute of Ocean Technology have struck gold in

the Gulf of Cambay in Gujarat having found the

first-ever possible record of pre-historic human

activity, which dates back to 9,500 years before

Christ. In an underwater survey carried out in the

Gulf, NIOT scientists discovered a civilisation, where

people, of the early Holocene age, mixed clay with

straw to make bricks for their homes, Secretary,

Department of Ocean Development Harsh K Gupta said.

 

Bricks found on the seabed were used for construction

purposes, which indicates that the people of that age

led an advanced and settled form of life, he said,

adding, “without human effort it is not possible to

put both the things in the way they were found on the

seabed.” Housing material, artefacts and submerged

paleochannel found on the seabed at a depth of 20 to

40 metre below the present sea level vindicates the

existence of a civilisation much before than that of

Mohenjodaro and Harrapa,” he said.

 

“During the detailed underwater surveys carried by the

institute in the zone, covering an area of 17 square

km, stone artefacts like blade scraper, perforated

stones and beads were found through techniques like

side scan sonar and sub-bottom profiler,” he said.