Kerala : Project to explore Megalithic sites started

Discovering Idukki, a project to explore and document the rich heritage of the district has been started and in the first phase of the project a heritage museum will be opened at the district headquarters in Painavu by April this year.

The project is being implemented by the district panchayat and the archaeological explorations will be conducted in various sites of dolmen in Marayur and the megalithic sites where the `nannagadies' (burial urns) were excavated especially in the high Ranges. T. Rajesh, officer-in-charge of the project said that the study may open unknown chapters of Kerala spice trade during the Stone Age and later...

The Hindu