Archaeologists find neolithic stone tools in Hyderabad

Archaeologists in Hyderabad have recently found rare stone tools with the findings indicating that the city’s history goes back to about 6,000 years

Archaeologists in Hyderabad have recently found rare stone tools, belonging to the neolithic age, with the findings indicating that the city's history goes back to about 6,000 years.

The Neolithic age relates to the period when humans used tools and weapons made of stone and had just developed farming.

It was for the first time that neolithic tools have been found in the city, said E Sivanagi Reddy, a retired government archaeology official.

Reddy, a noted archaeologist and CEO of Pleach India Foundation, said he and S Haragopal of 'Kotha Telangana Charitra Brundam' (an organisation working on the history of Telangana) recently visited a natural rock formation at BNR Hills in the city, locally known as 'tortoise rock', to explore if there were any prehistoric rock paintings when they stumbled upon the said discovery.

He said they closely looked at a gap between two rocks and found as many neolithic stone tools.

"...to our surprise, we noticed two neolithic stone tools which are known as new stone age tools. One is 12 cm in length and another is 9 cm. The width is 2.5 cm...these two stones are very, very important archaeologically. They are dated 4,000 to 2,000 BC," he said.

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