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- Discoveries of ancient artefacts indicated that a rural settlement might have thrived in that period.
- What is important in these latest discoveries is that we have found continuity in the progress of rural culture from a prehistoric era
- Excavation carried out on 12 acres of land in the Jalalpur village has unearthed remnants of axe, adze, celts and thumbnail scrappers chiselled from stones, harpoons, point and stylus made of bones and potteries with marks of paintings.
- The ASI teams have also come across a couple of circular wattle and daub structures, which were predominantly used by people to take shelter, in 12 trenches being dug simultaneously.
- The carbon samples would be send to the Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi, and the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, to ascertain their exact age.
- Once the exact age is known, it will be easier to analyse the rural settlement and its activities.
- The ASI researcher, however, said the people here could not have lived in isolation and they could have had cultural and trade ties with other settlements in the Prachi Valley that had come up around the Prachi river, which gradually disappeared.
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