4000-Year-Old Bone Ornaments Found In Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Nearly 4,000-year-old bone ornaments, a capstone and other rare objects belonging to the megalithic age have been found at different sites near Hyderabad. The bone ornaments were found in Narmetta area on the outskirts during excavations conducted at different sites from March to May this year.

"The ornaments are basically cut bone pieces, but are very precisely cut, all of equal shape, design, which in the 100 years of history of the department of archaeology and museums we have never come across," said NR Visalatchy, Telangana's archaeology and museums department director.

The archaeologists have also found a capstone which was in the shape of an "anthropomorphic (having human characteristics) figure. The bone ornaments show that the technology prevailed even then to precisely cut the bones and the mathematical sense to make them of a precise size, she said. The scientific analysis of the bone pieces would throw more light on its different aspects, she said, adding that its carbon dating (determination of age or date of organic matter) would also be done.

"2000 BC to 500 AD is the timeline (as to how old the bone pieces are)," she said, adding that a skeleton with a skull was found at another burial site.