Mysterious prehistoric carvings in India show native animals only from Africa
Mysterious prehistoric carvings in India show native animals only from Africa
We know for sure that India, like Africa, has elephants. Each continent also has lions and monkeys that are distant relatives. However, it does not appear that India has had hippos or rhinos (wait in a remote area). So how are archaeologists going to explain the thousands of rock engravings discovered in the hills of the Konkan region of western Maharashtra that show images of hippos, rhinos and other creatures never seen in India that interact with humans 12,000 years ago? There are thousands of large petroglyphs that seem to be the oldest that have been found, but which were unknown to the people of the villages where they were discovered. Are there hippos still hiding there too?
The mysterious petroglyphs are located in the narrow region of the Konkan coast, in the far western state of Maharashtra, with the Arabian Sea (northern Indian Ocean) to the west and the Western Ghats mountain to the east. According to a BBC report, In that band there are 52 villages near the coastal cities of Ratnagiri and Rajapur whose residents had no idea that they were living in so many carvings. Only a few were exposed and the locals considered them sacred. Those few glyphs provided the curiosity and the incentive for archaeologists to look for more.
"We walk thousands of kilometers. People started sending us pictures and we even recruited schools in our efforts to find them. We had the students ask their grandparents and other elders in the village if they knew of any other engraving. This gave us a lot of valuable information. "
Sudhir Risbood and Manoj Marathe led a group of explorers through the area in search of more exposed or partially exposed glyphs, along with indicators that some were hidden under the ground. The aerial views seem to indicate that the sizes are smaller but more numerous and denser than the Nazca lines in Peru. (Photos and videos here Y here.) However, it is not the size that makes these petroglyphs so exciting, it is their age and the strange animals represented in them, says Texas Garge, director of the archeology department of the state of Maharashtra.
"Our first deduction from examining these petroglyphs is that they were created around 10,000 BC." We have not found any images of agricultural activities. But the images represent animals hunted and there are details of animal forms. So this man knew about animals and marine creatures. That indicates that it depended on the hunt for food. Most petroglyphs show family animals. "There are images of sharks and whales, as well as amphibians like turtles."
And then there are the hippos and the rhinos. It is possible that the animals lived there before 10,000 BC, although no fossils have been found. It is also possible that the people who sculpted the images came to the coast from Africa. Less likely but there is still the possibility of traveling between both continents.
While Garge is excited to determine the answer to his origin, the Indian government has other priorities. The state gave him 240 million rupees ($ 3.2 million, £ 2.5 million) to study 400 of the thousands of petroglyphs. Obviously, they still do not see the tourist potential of the rock carvings.
Did the hippos ever roam India? Were they sacred as cows or simply tasty with curry, which led to their ultimate demise?
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