{"id":89466,"date":"2020-06-19T19:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15980"},"modified":"2020-06-19T19:27:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:57:28","slug":"excavation-at-kodumanal-reveals-megalithic-belief-in-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/excavation-at-kodumanal-reveals-megalithic-belief-in-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavation at Kodumanal reveals megalithic belief in afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The excavations at Kodumanal village have thrown light on burial rituals and the concept of afterlife in megalithic culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Kodumanal: <\/strong>It is a village located in the Erode district in Tamil Nadu.It is located on the northern banks of Noyyal River, a tributary of the Cauvery.<\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>It was once a flourishing ancient trade city known as Kodumanam as inscribed in Pathitrupathu of Sangam Literature.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Megalithic Culture:<\/strong> It is a large prehistoric stone culture that lasted from the Neolithic Stone Age to the early Historical Period (2500 BC to AD 200) across the world.&nbsp;<ul><li>In India, archaeologists trace the majority of the megaliths to the Iron Age (1500 BC to 500 BC) though some sites precede the Iron Age extending up to 2000 BC.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>India: <\/strong>Megaliths are spread across the peninsular India concentrated in the states of Maharashtra (mainly in Vidarbha), Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/li><li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>They were constructed as burial sites or as commemorative (non-sepulchral) memorials.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Burial Sites: <\/strong>These are actual burial remains such as dolmenoid cists (box-shaped stone burial chambers), cairn circles (stone circles with defined peripheries) and capstones (distinctive mushroom-shaped burial chambers found mainly in Kerala).<\/li><li><strong>Non-sepulchral megaliths:<\/strong> These<strong> <\/strong>include memorial sites such as menhirs.&nbsp;<ul><li>Menhir is the name used in Western Europe for a single upright stone erected in prehistoric times sometimes called a standing stone.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The excavations at Kodumanal village have thrown light on burial rituals and the concept of afterlife in megalithic culture. Facts: Kodumanal: It is a village located in the Erode district in Tamil Nadu.It is located on the northern banks of Noyyal River, a tributary of the Cauvery. Significance: It was once a flourishing ancient&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/excavation-at-kodumanal-reveals-megalithic-belief-in-afterlife\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excavation at Kodumanal reveals megalithic belief in afterlife<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6910,6911],"class_list":["post-89466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-kodumanal","tag-megalithic-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701976095},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89466","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=89466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}