{"id":116258,"date":"2021-07-03T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T12:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=116258"},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T10:46:15","slug":"4000-year-old-settlement-found-during-excavation-in-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/4000-year-old-settlement-found-during-excavation-in-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"4,000-year-old settlement found during excavation in Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GBF8NRC4H.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Odisha Institute of Maritime and South East Asian Studies(OIMSEAS), the archaeological wing of the State government, has discovered a 4,000-year-old settlement and ancient artifacts in Balasore district.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the OIMSEAS had sought permission from the Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) to document Durgadevi village in Odisha in the Balasore district.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Durgadevi Village:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Durgadevi village named after the presiding deity of the locality, <\/strong>is located 20 kms from Balasore town in Odisha.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The site has circular mud fortification<\/strong> of about 4.9 kms in circumference.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The site <\/strong>is located in between the river Sona on the south and the Burahabalang on its north-eastern margin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The site <\/strong>has two small nullas Gangahara and Prassana which join the site on its north and south, forming a natural moat. This was an ancient water management system developed at least 4000 years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the key findings at this site? <\/strong>The archaeologists have come across distinct traces of three cultural phases from the excavation site, which are:<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Chalcolithic Period(2000 to 1000 BC):<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>There <\/strong>were human settlements and artifacts belonging to the Chalcolithic period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The major discovery <\/strong>was the base of a circular hut, black on red painted pottery, black slipped ware, red slipped ware, and copper objects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The people <\/strong>were mostly leading settled life and had started agriculture, domestication of animals, and fishing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Iron Age (1000 to 400 BC): <\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The discovered material that <\/strong>belongs to the Iron Age Period includes, pottery remains of black burnished ware, black and red ware, iron objects like nails, arrow head, crucible and slag of various kinds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Early Historic Period: <\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Early Historic Period <\/strong>cultural materials that were discovered include pottery specimens of redware, terracotta ear-studs, bangles, beads, and some conical objects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? Odisha Institute of Maritime and South East Asian Studies(OIMSEAS), the archaeological wing of the State government, has discovered a 4,000-year-old settlement and ancient artifacts in Balasore district. Now, the OIMSEAS had sought permission from the Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) to document Durgadevi village in Odisha in the Balasore&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/4000-year-old-settlement-found-during-excavation-in-odisha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4,000-year-old settlement found during excavation in Odisha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704932836},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}