Date: January 10th 2007

From: kalyan97 <kalyan97@gmail.com Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007

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World's longest rock art chain in Vindhyas

T S Sreenivasa Raghavan


[ 6 Jan, 2007 0107hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]



CHENNAI: After Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh is poised to claim yet another world record in rock art — this time, for the longest chain of rock art.

The 12-km-long site, with most of its petroglyphs or pre-historic rock carvings intact, has been discovered in Mandsaur district of Malwa region, which is also home to Bhimbetka, the UNESCO world heritage site, 45 km south of Bhopal.

The Rock Arts Society of India (RASI), which knew about the existence of the site for sometime, has now gone official saying the site in the Vindhyan tableland, a plateau lying north of the central part of the Vindhya range, is indeed the "longest chain of rock arts in the world".

"Nowhere in the world has anybody come across such an extensive chain of rock arts with little interruption. What's exciting is most petroglyphs are intact," internationally acclaimed paleontologist and former RASI secretary G L Badam told TOI.

The site is situated inside dense forests, 35 km from Bhanpura town, about 350 km from Bhopal. Earliest carvings in the chain are mostly of animals Subject:



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