Archaeologists dug up ancient weapons in India

In the Eastern Indian state side of West Bengal, some archaeologists have discovered small stone weapons nearly 15,000-20,000 years old. During excavation held at Murshidabad district, near Bangladesh, stone age artifacts were found. This discovery is considered important as it reveals about the presence of men in the arena which is dated back much earlier than believed. There is enough affirmation of stone age activity in India's upland regions.

 

Dr Gautam Sengupta, director of the State Archaeology Department told the BBC news channel on 28th March, 2008 about the discovery of weapons and along with them scraps and raw materials were also found. Archaeologists have uncovered weapons from soil layer pertaining to the mid-Pleistocene period. This has affirmed that weapons were made at this place only. The weapons that were discovered were actually small axes.

 

According to one of the archaeologist, � The history of civilization in this area has gone back by approx. 20,000 years�.

 

Along with scraps and raw material, some charcoal has also been found in this location yet scientists have to verify about how old the charcoal is.

 

After the exposition of weapons, Prof SN Rajguru and Dr Bhaskar Deotare ( geo- archaeologists ) sojourned the excavation place and affirmed that the weapons date back to the smaller Stone Age.

 

According to Dr Sengupta, this discovery was made by chance. He has also stated that he and his whole team were actually digging place for finding some artifacts and evidences related to Sultan Hussein Shah of the Sultanate period. After finding some evidence related to Sultan period, his archaeologists kept on digging to unearth some more artifacts of that period. It was then they found these stone age weapons. Now after this discovery of stone age weapons, archaeologists are planning to search for more ancient human habitations in much wider arenas.

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