{"id":119361,"date":"2021-07-17T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=119361"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:58:14","slug":"prehistoric-site-in-faridabad-could-be-a-lakh-year-old-say-archeologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/prehistoric-site-in-faridabad-could-be-a-lakh-year-old-say-archeologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric site in Faridabad could be a lakh year old, say archeologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/chandigarh\/mangerbani-cave-paintings-1-lakh-years-old-archaeologists-7407264\/#:~:text=Petroglyphs%20discovered%20at%20the%20Mangerbani,to%201%20lakh%20years%20old.\"><strong>Indian Express <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Archaeologists in Haryana have estimated that cave paintings discovered at a prehistoric site in Faridabad\u2019s Mangar Bani hill forest may be up to lakh years old.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What did the Archeologists discover?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Archaeologists have discovered <\/strong>cave paintings at a prehistoric site in Faridabad\u2019s Mangar Bani hill forest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>They believe that these paintings<\/strong> belong to the Upper Palaeolithic age, which could potentially make them one of the oldest cave arts in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this discovery:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This is the first time <\/strong>that a prehistoric site with cave paintings and rock art of a large magnitude has been found in Haryana.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>However, <\/strong>tools from the Palaeolithic age have been identified earlier in parts of the Aravallis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, <\/strong>the latest discovery will take the history of Haryana further back in time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Facts Mentioned in the Article:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>About Palaeolithic Age:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Palaeolithic <\/strong>is derived from the Greek word \u2018palaeo\u2019, which means old and \u2018lithic\u2019 meaning stone.Therefore, the term Palaeolithic age refers to the old Stone Age.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Palaeolithic age in India <\/strong>is divided into three phases: Early or Lower Palaeolithic (50,0000 \u2013 100,000 BC), Middle Palaeolithic(100,000 \u2013 40,000 BC) and Upper Palaeolithic (40,000 \u2013 10,000 BC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Radiocarbon Dating:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Radiocarbon dating <\/strong>is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Method:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The basis of radiocarbon dating is simple: <\/strong>all living things absorb carbon from the atmosphere and food sources around them, including a certain amount of natural, radioactive carbon-14.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When the plant or animal dies, <\/strong>they stop absorbing, but the radioactive carbon that they\u2019ve accumulated continues to decay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hence, <\/strong>measuring the amount leftover gives an estimate as to how long something has been dead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express What is the News? Archaeologists in Haryana have estimated that cave paintings discovered at a prehistoric site in Faridabad\u2019s Mangar Bani hill forest may be up to lakh years old. What did the Archeologists discover? Archaeologists have discovered cave paintings at a prehistoric site in Faridabad\u2019s Mangar Bani hill forest. They believe&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/prehistoric-site-in-faridabad-could-be-a-lakh-year-old-say-archeologists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prehistoric site in Faridabad could be a lakh year old, say archeologists<\/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":[8457,8458],"class_list":["post-119361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-archeologists-discover","tag-prehistoric-site-in-faridabad-could-be-a-lakh-year-old","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704837711},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119361","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=119361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}