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    Plough in Rock Art Discovered: Samyuktha Amithav

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    Archaeologists in Krishnagiri, India discovered a rock art painting depicting ploughing. The painting, found in a cave shelter, shows bullocks ploughing a field. Other scenes in the shelter include hunting and unidentified symbols. Ploughing has a long history in Southern India, referenced in literature from 2000 years ago. The discovery provides rare visual evidence of early agricultural practices in the region.

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    Archaeologists in Krishnagiri, India discovered a rock art painting depicting ploughing. The painting, found in a cave shelter, shows bullocks ploughing a field. Other scenes in the shelter include hunting and unidentified symbols. Ploughing has a long history in Southern India, referenced in literature from 2000 years ago. The discovery provides rare visual evidence of early agricultural practices in the region.

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    Archaeologists in Krishnagiri, India discovered a rock art painting depicting ploughing. The painting, found in a cave shelter, shows bullocks ploughing a field. Other scenes in the shelter include hunting and unidentified symbols. Ploughing has a long history in Southern India, referenced in literature from 2000 years ago. The discovery provides rare visual evidence of early agricultural practices in the region.

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    Plough in Rock Art Discovered: Samyuktha Amithav

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    Archaeologists in Krishnagiri, India discovered a rock art painting depicting ploughing. The painting, found in a cave shelter, shows bullocks ploughing a field. Other scenes in the shelter include hunting and unidentified symbols. Ploughing has a long history in Southern India, referenced in literature from 2000 years ago. The discovery provides rare visual evidence of early agricultural practices in the region.

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    The passage discusses the discovery of ancient rock art related to ploughing in Southern India and provides historical context about agricultural practices.

    The rock art depicts scenes of ploughing, hunting, and other symbols. It shows bullocks, a tiger, and a horse.

    The Greeks used antelopes, the Chinese used buffaloes, and some other animals were also used like buffaloes in some places.

    PLOUGH IN ROCK ART DISCOVERED

    SAMYUKTHA AMITHAV

    In Neolithic period, agriculture was widespread; the ancient man rapidly


    learned the art of ploughing and implemented it in the fields.Ploughing tools were
    depicted in pictures available all over world. They found to contain rock art. A man
    ploughing a field in the wall painting from the tomb of Nakht at Thebes, Egypt
    (1420 BC), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork preserved these rare and
    unique paintings.

    Egyptian pyramid painting

    For the past 7000 years, the Chinese practiced paddy cultivation with modern
    technology and developed equipments from time to time. It was something wonders
    that they used the seed sowing tools even before 2000 years.
    Some of the countries used various animals in agriculture. For instance,
    The Greeks used antelopes, the Chinese used buffaloes and some other animals.
    A farmer ploughing a land was carved in a bas-relief tablet was shown beautifully
    in Borapudur Buddha temple.

    Arabian rock painting

    In Southern India, improved technological tools developed Agriculture during


    the time of early Iron Age. Recently, a rock art related to ploughing was discovered
    by a archeological team in Krishnagiri comprising of Sukavana Murukan, Krishna
    Kumar and Veeramani , Pennar Archeological Forum, Kaveripattinam. They found
    these rock art paintings in a shelter at Melpallam of Melumalai range in Chinna
    Kothur of Veppanapalli union in Krishnagiri District. The trios discovered the said
    rock art in a cave shelter near a well-known megalithic site of burial monuments.
    In the outer portion of the cave shelter, there are three sceneries one, about
    the plough; next, the hunting scene; the last about the symbols yet to be identified.
    The animals in the art are bullocks, tiger and horse. In the inner region, a dancing
    party celebrated to share their hunting.

    On Ploughing, verses are available from the Sangam literature for the past
    2000 years of the ancient Tamils. Ivanam- a variety of paddy cultivated in the hilly
    sides. One who found a separate chapter for Uzavu in Tirukural, Valluvar gave how
    much importance to agriculture! The great epic poet Kamban wrote seventy stanzas
    on ploughing called Er Elubathu.
    Plough practiced through kallappai-Mezhi is widely used in Tamil inscriptions as
    Chitramehzi. A Farmer’s guild called them as chitramezhi periya nattar. The word
    Chitrmezhi especially means the icon of ploughing, which is picture in the rock art so
    early. However, a Hero stone-pulikutthi pattin kal inscription of the Rajendra Chola-
    I (1040 AD) from Anusonai in Krishnagiri district shows a man attacked a tiger and
    dead at the time of Er pani (ploughing duty) in a temple. This rock art seems to be
    such one occasion.

    There are some similarities in all these pictures. They followed the same method
    in the fields. Even after the advent of modern technology and new equipments such
    as tillers and tractors, a small piece of land Kalappai used to plough.

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