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Megalithic stone jars
April 15 , 2022
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- In the Dima Hasao district of Assam, a number of megalithic stone jars have been discovered.
- This discovery has highlighted the possible links, that date back to the second millennium BC, between Southeast Asia and the Northeast region of India.
- Three distinct shaped jars have been documented in the paper, ‘An archaeological survey of the Assam stone jar sites’.
- In a site named Nuchubunglo, 546 jars were discovered making it the largest such site across the planet.
- The study has called for more research so as to understand this cultural relationship between Laos and Assam and Indonesia.
- Indonesia and Laos are the only two other sites where such similar jars have been discovered.
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