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Iron Age in Tamil Nadu
January 26 , 2025
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- TN Government has released a report titled, ‘Antiquity of Iron: Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’.
- The discovery was made through the radiometric dating of burial urn samples from Sivagalai in Thoothukudi district.
- The study has revealed that the Iron Age may have begun in present-day Tamil Nadu as early as 3,345 BCE.
- The new findings push the introduction of iron in the Tamil landscape back 5,300 years.
- The discovery suggests that a contemporary Iron Age civilization existed in the southern India at the same time as the Indus Valley Civilization in northern and northwestern India.
- Before these discoveries, the earliest iron objects in Tamil Nadu were dated to around 2172 BCE from Mayiladumparai in Krishnagiri district.
- Additionally, another site, Adichanallur in Thoothukudi district, had produced a charcoal sample associated with iron objects that was dated to 2517 BCE.
- In comparison, the iron objects from other regions of India, such as Brahmagiri in Karnataka and Gachibowli near Hyderabad, were dated to around 2140 BCE and 2200 BCE, respectively.
- Earlier, the Hittite Empire (in modern-day Turkey) was believed to be the first civilization to use iron, with evidence dating back to around 1,380 BCE.
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