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A rainwater harvesting project, undertaken by the Koduvayur grama panchayat, led to an unusually large number of megalithic urn burials on top of a hill in the Kollengode range of Nenmara forest division in Kerala.
An archaeologist, who examined the urn burials found on Kundlikkad hill in Palakkad district said they could throw up a significant insight into the links between mesolithic and iron age periods in Kerala.
Urn burials
Burial in which a pottery vessel is used as a grave repository for the ashes and bones of the corpse
The urns are a testament to the burial practices and socio-cultural aspects of the people who lived in the area during the megalithic period.
Megalithic Site Adichanallur in Tamil Nadu is renowned for its rich archaeological significance and urn burials
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