Keezhadi site in Tamil Nadu yielded Tamil-Brahmi artifacts

Because of disturbances in the ... the 1st century CE. (1) ... Keezhadi inscriptions date from the 6th century BCE, indicating early Tamil literacy predating Ashoka's Edicts....

So far, the major findings are ... in Keezhadi. Almost 48 square pits have been cut and various structures and artifacts have been found, including frosts, brick walls, roof tiles, pottery, mimic accessories, skeletal tools, iron Vel, and Tamil-Brahmi letter-etched plates. This place is considered to be Pandyan dynasty's city called "Perumanalur", the pioneer of literature. Ancient earthenware and ring wells have been found. Archaeologist Velappan said ...

Ancient Pottery dating back to ... by marine archaeologists east of Poompuhar, also known as Kaveripattinam is a town in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu. Kaveripattnam was a thriving ancient capital port city of the Early Chola Empire. Tamil-Brāhmī sherds found ...

Dravidian University archaeologist ... that the Tamil-Brahmi script belongs to the sixth century BC". An archaeological survey team under Archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna was first conducted in 2013 in the vicinity of the Vaigai river from Theni district to Ramanathapuram district where the river meets the sea. During the study, 293 sites, including Keezhadi, were identified ...

In what may be a major discovery for Indian history, artifacts found in excavations carried out at Keezhadi in Tamil Nadu’s Sivagangai district have determined a possible link between the scripts of the Indus Valley Civilisation and Tamil Brahmi, ...

The presence of large number of handmade grooved tiles · indicates the existence of tiled roof above the structure. More than 8,000 artifacts including pottery · with Tamil Brahmi inscriptions, gold coins, beads, iron tools and jewellery which indicated that an

The writer of this article in scroll.in, Sruthisagar Yamunan, draws a connection between the “graffiti marks” on the Keezhadi pottery and the Indus script, presumably on the above note in the report. This must be the only, or most explicit, such claim in the report, or else we would have had more explicit quotes. We also have a quote about the Tamil-Brahmi alphabet: “The report said: ‘Tamil-Brahmi letters as part of inscriptions are found engraved on the shoulder portions of the earthen vessels.

They also state that the pre-Vedic Dravidian people of Indus valley civilization migrated southwards and settled in ancient Tamil lands or Tamilakam to give rise to another civilization which was free from the Vedic influences from north, and that Keezhadi finds reflects this pre-Vedic Tamil civilization. How true are these claims? This write up does an analysis of such claims with factual sources. ... First let’s go through the issue regarding Tamil Brahmi script.

The findings at the site in Keezhadi, near Madurai, push back the date of Tamil Brahmi script, which is the precursor to modern Tamil, by another century.