New Delhi: New evidence of completion dated in paleolithic, or old stone age has been found in the Aravali hill by a doctoral scholar from Delhi University.
Shalaish Baisla has found stone tools such as blades and petroglifs and stone carvings ranging from lower to paleolithic age.
Baisla, when pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Archaeology from the Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management, conducted an ethno-archaeological study of the Gurjar Delhi and coincidental in the villages of Kot and Mangar in Faridabad, close to the Delhi border, where he made some discoveries interesting.
“I found the first stone hand ax there and while I was aware of the nearby paleolithic site, I didn’t know about the kot village as one.
The stone tools we found were relatively corrosioned because of sustainable erosion by seasonal river water, “The PhD Scholar said.
In the village of Mangar, Baisla’s investigation was excavated, for the first time, stone shelter of the middle paleolitic period, or 3,00,00-5,00, 00 years ago, a date based on the tool found there.
Baisla said, “We found many petroglifs in the kot village consisting of cupula, graffiti signs and hands and unusual footprints, animals, birds and fish carved into a horizontal quartz slab.” He said a similar prehistoric art was in Bhimbetka and Dharaki-Chattan in Madhya Pradesh.
The tools found include hand axis, pebble tools, borers, blades, and other equipment.
“There must be more research in this area immediately and the location needs to be protected too,” said the residents of Kotla Mubarakpur.
According to Professor Manoj Kumar Singh from the Department of Anthropology DU, “Baisla’s discovery is an extraordinary example of prehistoric India.” He explained that when the human species left Africa during the Pleistocene era, one group migrated to the east through Iran and entered India from the northwestern region of the children of the continent.
“They must have landed in the Aravali region and cultural evidence now shows that they live there for a long time before migrating to the South Peninsula.” The professor also claimed that the findings of fragments and core devices were proven to be available for the first time “Industrial I Mode”, or the earliest tools made by Genus Homo.
“We need wider exploration and excavation throughout the Aravali Hills,” Singh added.