Iron implements unearthed from a village in Mayiladumparai area of Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu shows that the oldest Iron Age has been found in the state.
The report by the Tamil Nadu State Archaeology Department stated that the Tamil civilization had mastered the art of making iron supplies, which helped them a lot to grow economically, as larger areas could be cultivated using these tools, compared to stone tools.
Addressing the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin said that 28 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry based (AMS) dating sites are found in India in which the Krisnagiri site is predicted to be the earliest of all. The 28 sites include sites in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.
The TN archaeology officers said that it took 700 years for the members of civilisation to add carbon in it to make the iron tools.
“The excavation in the Mayiladumparai was undertaken to prove the Iron Age, and now we have also established that we are connected with other iron age civilizations,” said an archaeological officer.
According to the report, these dates were obtained from the depth of 104 centimetres and 130 centimetres. These two dates have also provided a new understanding of the nature of cultural deposits.
The report also says that The Indus Valley didn’t have the usage of iron, which is to be predicted that they were accessible to copper age, which preceded the Iron Age by 1000 years. The deforestation also begun only after the introduction of the iron, by all means it brought a larger area under agriculture and production to the increased manifold.
The introduction of the iron has also helped the people in past to bring the cultivable land to the production. The recent samples from Salem city placed the manufactures of the iron in the mid date of 1510 BCE, but it hasn’t also match with the given Indian dates.
