Recent Archaeological Excavations in Tamil Nadu and the Indus Sites by T. S. Subramanian|

Focus on the excavations at the Iron Age/megalithic burial sites of Kodumanal and Porunthal and the Iron Age burial site of Adichanallur which is not, however, a megalithic burial site. Adichanallur is more of an urn burial site. The recent excavations done at Kodumanal and Porunthal by Professor K. Rajan of Pondicherry University have unearthed many pot-sherds with Tamil-Brahmi script and revealed the antiquity of bead-making industry in these two sites. The excavations done at Adichanallur by T. Satyamurthy, who retired as the Superintending Archaeologist of the ASI, revealed more than 100 urns, most of them with skeletons. Urn burials at Adichanallur were done in tiers as well. Dr Satyamurthy re-excavated Adichanallur