{"id":31509,"date":"2018-10-27T14:26:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31509"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:26:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:56:58","slug":"pre-christian-era-artefacts-unearthed-in-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pre-christian-era-artefacts-unearthed-in-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Christian era artefacts unearthed in Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pre-christian-era-artefacts-unearthed-in-odisha\/article22651020.ece\"><strong>Pre-Christian era artefacts unearthed in Odisha<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered pottery pieces, and tools made of stones and bones believed to be of the pre-Christian era from a mound in Jalalpur village of Cuttack district<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Discoveries of ancient artefacts indicate that a <strong>rural settlement<\/strong> might have thrived in that period<\/li>\n<li>These latest discoveries is that a continuity in the progress of rural culture from a pre-historic era has been found<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Tools found<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excavation carried out in 12 acres of land in the Jalalpur village has unearthed remnants of<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Axe<\/li>\n<li>Adze<\/li>\n<li>Celts<\/li>\n<li>Thumbnail scrappers chiselled from stones<\/li>\n<li>Harpoons<\/li>\n<li>point and stylus made of bones<\/li>\n<li>potteries with marks of paintings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Other discoveries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The ASI teams have also come across a couple of circular wattle and daub structures, which were predominantly used by people to take shelter during the pre-Christian era, in 12 trenches being dug simultaneously<\/li>\n<li>Discovery of tortoise shell, dolphin and shark teeth and fish bones indicated that the settlement could have been closer to the sea coast<\/li>\n<li>Some rice grains have also been detected<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>What type of economy existed<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Rich materials found from excavation sites indicate that the people had a subsistence economy and they largely relied on agriculture, fishing and hunting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-Christian era artefacts unearthed in Odisha Context The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered pottery pieces, and tools made of stones and bones believed to be of the pre-Christian era from a mound in Jalalpur village of Cuttack district Significance Discoveries of ancient artefacts indicate that a rural settlement might have thrived in that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pre-christian-era-artefacts-unearthed-in-odisha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pre-Christian era artefacts unearthed in Odisha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704807870},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31509","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}