This book describes the four most important archaeological sites in the state of Tamilnadu, India. with a glorious past the ancient history of Tamilnadu is full of archaeological wonders waiting to be discovered.The latest addition to the growing list is the keeladi, a hamlet in down south of Tamilnadu. situated away from from the nearest big river Vaigai this is the first evidence of thae existtance of aurban civilisation in Tamil nadu . like the Indus valley it reveal s a meticulous town plannig, dranage and lavatrry constrution . It has yielde the potshreds with grafiiti . Carbon dating of some of the reains reveal a surprising ancient date for the artifacts. the proposed time of the artifacts is 5 th century BCE . This pushes the recorded ancient history at least by five hundred years. The writings on the pot-shred are older than the ASOKA BRAHMI. a time interval of five hundred years .It seems Tamils had a written scriptt much earlier than any otherlanguage in India. thhhhhhhhhhhis and, anu, ore things are described in this book

With reference to the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Contributed articles on Chennai city, Tamil Nadu.

This title is a comprehensive survey of maritime archaeology as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology.

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