Department of Archaeology/Tamil Nadu An Iron Age grave found at the Kilnamandi excavation site Also, in a site called Kodumanal, excavators found a furnace, pointing to an advanced iron-making ...

It has the potential to sow seeds of furthering discord when the direction of the discourse is aimed at propagating the ...

CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in ...

Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’ in Chennai, Stalin said he was making the remarkable anthropological announcement, not only to India but to the whole world, that the “Iron Age began ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin proclaimed that the iron age began on “Tamil soil”, placing the date 5,300-odd years ago (4th millennium BCE), and that the “history of Indian ...

Recent radiometric dates from Tamil Nadu’, authored by K. Rajan and R. Sivanantham, Mr. Stalin said: “The Iron Age began on Tamil soil!”. He went on to cite carbon dating results from ...

The recent announcement by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that the Iron Age began in Tamil Nadu is a case in point. It is not an accident that the findings of Tamil Nadu archaeologists ...

Recent carbon dating of samples from burial urns in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district suggests the Iron Age could well have begun in the state. As per the study, Iron Age began at least 1,000 years ...

For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient ...

The latest Tamil Nadu digs pushes back the antiquity of Indian iron by another 400 years," archaeologist Rajan, who has co-authored a paper on the subject, told me. "The Iron Age is a ...