I read an article (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article1597038.ece) today. Apparently in an archaeological site called Attirambakkam about 60km from Chennai some tools have been excavated which are dated a million tears old.
A million years? Yes. And not only that. A study of the tools has indicated that the tools were made elsewhere, perhaps Africa and finished here in the suburbs of Chennai (http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/03/2011/stone-tools-reveal-indias-1-5-million-year-old-prehistory).
What do you say to that now? How did people travel from Africa to Chennai? Quite likely there ware no airlines, no ships, no roads. Were Africa and Asia connected by land (I don't mean like how Egypt and Saudi Arabia are connected now. That is a very long route). Perhaps Somalia Or Kenya were a few km away from, say, Goa?
Or maybe over a period of few hundred or thousand years, people kept moving eastwards from Africa with their tools that their ancestors owned and then one fine day they reached Chennai. And then may be like Hyundai or Nokia now, they found Chennai to be an ideal place where they could finally assemble / finish the product?
And what language did they speak? Was there any language in the first place?
Or maybe over a period of few hundred or thousand years, people kept moving eastwards from Africa with their tools that their ancestors owned and then one fine day they reached Chennai. And then may be like Hyundai or Nokia now, they found Chennai to be an ideal place where they could finally assemble / finish the product?
And what language did they speak? Was there any language in the first place?
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