http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/09/eda...hows-sindu.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>edakkal caves in kerala shows sindu-sarasvati type sign</b>
sep 26th, 2009
you mean the 'aryan' tourists actually reached as far as kerala, no doubt to enjoy the legendary charms of kerala women :-), and they were given tourist visas locally (or was it missionary visas)?
<b>www.thehindu.com/2009/09/26/stories/2009092661621200.htm</b>
i have to head to the ancient edakkal caves one of these days, just as i keep promising myself i'll go to bhimbetka.
Posted by nizhal yoddha at 9/26/2009 06:14:00 AM 0 comments <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What, what? Kerala beat me out? <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Never mind, fellow Tamizhians. We've got them <i>horsies</i> in Tamizh Nadu. We're special tooo.
Excerpts and images from the old news (June 2007) that Dhu had posted earlier and which The Chindu took off in a hurry:
www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070629000206400.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Rock galleries</b>
TEXTS: T.S. SUBRAMANIAN
PICTURES: K.T. GANDHIRAJAN AND P. MANIVANNAN
The discovery of rock art, dating back to 2000 B.C., in Tamil Nadu offers a peek into history.
[...]
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/20070629000206402.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Image caption: <i><b>THE CENTAUR-LIKE IMAGE in white ochre at Karikkiyur, the largest rock art site in South India.</b></i>
[...]
Mavadaippu is the latest discovery by the team. It had discovered a prehistoric rock art site at Porivarai (2003), and ancient rock paintings at Salekkurai and Sundasingam (2005), near Karikkiyur, about 40 km from Kothagiri in the Nilgiris. In fact, the team was totally unprepared for what awaited it at Porivarai. It turned out to be the largest rock art site in South India with about 500 paintings in an area that is 53 m long and 15 m wide. <b>Experts say the rock paintings at both Mavadaippu and Karikkiyur could be dated to 2000 B.C. to 1500 B.C.</b> How did they stumble upon this treasure trove? The group was at Kothagiri to provide training in arts and crafts to tribal youth at the Don Bosco Community College when it visited Konavakarai, a tribal village, where a rock art site reportedly existed. But the villagers were not aware of its existence. Disappointed, the team returned to the college in Chennai. During a discussion on rock art that evening, an Irula tribal student from Karikkiyur said he had seen such paintings on a rock-shelter in a forest near his village. Chandrasekaran and Gandhirajan lost no time in making it to Karikkiyur. A 7-km trek through an elephant corridor led them to the rock-shelter, locally known as Porivarai.
The paintings in white ochre include a procession of bisons, monkeys clambering up a tree branch, a herd of deer grazing, human beings welcoming one another with outstretched arms, <b>a battle scene with men aiming at each other with bows and arrows, men on horseback engaged in battle,</b> a shoulder-clasping dance after a successful boar-hunt, a man with a mask, the depiction of sun and its rays, a spiral, a tiger fighting another animal, and a man and his dog sleeping.
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/20070629000206406.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Image caption: <i>THE MASTERPIECE OF Karikkiyur is a realistic depiction of bisons moving in a row, in red ochre. </i>
[...]
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/20070629000206411.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Image caption: <i><b>A battle scene at Karikkiyur, depicting men with bows and arrows and on horse back.</b>
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Spoil-sport WitSSel wanted to call in to declare omnisciently that these must be donkeys instead "obviously", since "there are no horses". Sadly he had the wrong number.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>edakkal caves in kerala shows sindu-sarasvati type sign</b>
sep 26th, 2009
you mean the 'aryan' tourists actually reached as far as kerala, no doubt to enjoy the legendary charms of kerala women :-), and they were given tourist visas locally (or was it missionary visas)?
<b>www.thehindu.com/2009/09/26/stories/2009092661621200.htm</b>
i have to head to the ancient edakkal caves one of these days, just as i keep promising myself i'll go to bhimbetka.
Posted by nizhal yoddha at 9/26/2009 06:14:00 AM 0 comments <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What, what? Kerala beat me out? <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Never mind, fellow Tamizhians. We've got them <i>horsies</i> in Tamizh Nadu. We're special tooo.Excerpts and images from the old news (June 2007) that Dhu had posted earlier and which The Chindu took off in a hurry:
www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070629000206400.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Rock galleries</b>
TEXTS: T.S. SUBRAMANIAN
PICTURES: K.T. GANDHIRAJAN AND P. MANIVANNAN
The discovery of rock art, dating back to 2000 B.C., in Tamil Nadu offers a peek into history.
[...]
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/20070629000206402.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Image caption: <i><b>THE CENTAUR-LIKE IMAGE in white ochre at Karikkiyur, the largest rock art site in South India.</b></i>
[...]
Mavadaippu is the latest discovery by the team. It had discovered a prehistoric rock art site at Porivarai (2003), and ancient rock paintings at Salekkurai and Sundasingam (2005), near Karikkiyur, about 40 km from Kothagiri in the Nilgiris. In fact, the team was totally unprepared for what awaited it at Porivarai. It turned out to be the largest rock art site in South India with about 500 paintings in an area that is 53 m long and 15 m wide. <b>Experts say the rock paintings at both Mavadaippu and Karikkiyur could be dated to 2000 B.C. to 1500 B.C.</b> How did they stumble upon this treasure trove? The group was at Kothagiri to provide training in arts and crafts to tribal youth at the Don Bosco Community College when it visited Konavakarai, a tribal village, where a rock art site reportedly existed. But the villagers were not aware of its existence. Disappointed, the team returned to the college in Chennai. During a discussion on rock art that evening, an Irula tribal student from Karikkiyur said he had seen such paintings on a rock-shelter in a forest near his village. Chandrasekaran and Gandhirajan lost no time in making it to Karikkiyur. A 7-km trek through an elephant corridor led them to the rock-shelter, locally known as Porivarai.
The paintings in white ochre include a procession of bisons, monkeys clambering up a tree branch, a herd of deer grazing, human beings welcoming one another with outstretched arms, <b>a battle scene with men aiming at each other with bows and arrows, men on horseback engaged in battle,</b> a shoulder-clasping dance after a successful boar-hunt, a man with a mask, the depiction of sun and its rays, a spiral, a tiger fighting another animal, and a man and his dog sleeping.
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/20070629000206406.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Image caption: <i>THE MASTERPIECE OF Karikkiyur is a realistic depiction of bisons moving in a row, in red ochre. </i>
[...]
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/indiaforum/20070629000206411.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Image caption: <i><b>A battle scene at Karikkiyur, depicting men with bows and arrows and on horse back.</b>
</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Spoil-sport WitSSel wanted to call in to declare omnisciently that these must be donkeys instead "obviously", since "there are no horses". Sadly he had the wrong number.
Death to traitors.