Live Events(You can now subscribe to our(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channelArcheologists and carbon dat9ing had confirmed one of the old civilizations at Keeladi, 12km southeast of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, in 6th century BCE. The research was conducted with the help of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.The skulls were found at Kondagai, a burial site around 800m from the main excavation site. The lower halves of the faces were more guesstimate; reconstruction of the upper halves was more accurate. The site has been at a tussle between the Centre and the state.The Tamil Nadu state archaeology department took over the excavation from ASI in 2018 following a court order. She studied the bone remains at Kondagai and Kodumanal.“The stature estimation is feasible for only 11 skeleton remains at Kondagai.
