Excavations show NE had ties with China , what will the hindu fanatic brahmin have to say
Guwahati, Jan 28 (PTI): A professor of Gauhati University has claimed to have found evidence of palaeolithic culture which has thrown light on the prehistory of the State linking it to South-east Asia and China.
Prof Dilip Medhi who worked for years in the State says Mizoram can boast of its prehistoric status with the discovery of evidence of the palaeolithic culture.
Medhi says in his findings that there was plenty of authenticating evidence of human migration from South-east Asia and China to the North-east and to other mainland.
He also says that the NE had relations with China and South-east Asia and that neolithic shouldered celts were found in North Cachar Hills of Assam and in 1964, again in Kamrup district and also at Parse Parlo in Arunachal Pradesh.
Medhi said that according to the findings, Mizoram can boast of three major cultural ties with South-east Asia which are the palaeolithic, neolithic and megalithic.
He revealed that three massive choppers including few of the tools came to his hand whose appearance provides a connection of Mizoram to the palaeolithic "Anyathian" culture in the Yeraadi valley of Myanmar.
The American South-east Asiatic Expedition of 1937-38 had first explored paleolithic sites in upper Burma (now Myanmar) which was called the Anyathian culture.
One remarkable feature about the culture is that there was no handaxes which are commonly found among Western palaeolithics with three most characteristic implements, the chopper, chopping tool and hand axe.
Medhi said that one of the three choppers discovered at Champhai typically resembles a chopper discovered at Tengnoupal district of Manipur.
The Manipur chopper, he said, currently housed in the Manipur State Museum, has a relation with the similar chopper found in Banganga in Himachal Pradesh.
An excavation would be conducted at the place of occurrence of the choppers in March 2005 including resolving many issues in the prehistory of South-east Asia and South Asia, Medhi said.
The present-day metallic hoes and axes used in the jhum (shifting) cultivation and in splitting firewood respectively do resemble a neolithic celt, Medhi claimed.
"The discovery in Mizoram does establish a close relation to the Anyathian palaeolithic in Myanmar and therefore it proves beyond doubt that the Anyathian culture of the Yerawadi valley of Myanmar extended to Mizoram with a possibility of further extension to Tripura and may be Bangladesh", Medhi said.
"The monoliths representing megalithic culture of Mizoram has a definite proof of migration of this tradition from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar which passes through North-east India and entered into mainland India via Bangladesh", he said.
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