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1. It is a small town located on the banks of the Tamirabarani river in the Thoothukudi district of Tamilnadu. This place became an excavation site way before in 1876, where a German explorer named Jagor unearthed some findings during his trip. After some time an excavation carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) under the guidance of Alexander Rea (British excavator) in 1900 unearthed many Iron made artefacts. The Archaeological expedition in 2004 by T. Sathyamurthy founded gold ornaments, bronze statues of animals like tigers, elephants, and crocodiles. Potshards with women pictures along with a paddy stalk were also found in this place. Find the place mentioned here.

 

2. This place is located in the Southwest of Palani in the Dindigul district of Tamilnadu. It was a site of great significance according to the archaeologists because the findings include airtight containers with Paddy samples from graves of people, where the paddy variety found in this place belongs to Odisha’s Satvaika variety. Further discoveries of Iron Plough with sickle confirms the fact that the people of Megalithic age were well acquainted with the practice of Agriculture. It also had a large number of beads mainly made of glass in various colours along with semi-precious stones like Quartz and Carnelian. The most significant of the findings were the Tamil Brahmi inscriptions dating back to the 5th century BC along with the rice pots which were not found in any other sites. Find the place mentioned in the above paragraph.