Balangoda Man
Sri Lanka regards as a central stopover point on the road to human evolution. The Batadombalena Caves in Ratnapura contained significant evidence on human metamorphosis, including a prehistoric era human skull. Extensive research and expeditions have uncovered new details about the way of life of our ancestors. It wrote down in history as a beginning of a new era in the study of human evolution.
Balangoda man (?????? ??????) Homo sapiens balangodensis is the earliest human lived in the Mesolithic era. According to the sources, they found a skeleton in the archeological site near Balangoda. The Balangoda man got his name after the place where his remains reveal.
According to evidence found in caves and other locations, it believes that Balangoda Man first appeared around 38,000BP and from recently discovered skeletal remains that date back to 30,000BP. It’s the first proof that anatomically modern humans were living in South Asia at the time. Alongside the skeleton, there were cultural remains, including Geometric microliths from 28,500 B.P. The oldest evidence for stone tool use comes from this site and a few others in Africa.
Balangoda Man
The Balangoda Man was a tall man who lived tens of thousands of years ago. This archaic hominid was approximately 174 cm tall (females were around 166 cm tall). Extensive study and expeditions have brought more knowledge about our ancient ancestors’ lifestyles to light.
According to the study, early humans had a sunken nose, pronounced supraorbital ridges, thick skull, large teeth, short necks, and hefty jaws. Remains of human skeletons found in caves lived over 16,000 years. It analysis for metric and morphometric traits that reveal remarkable biological compatibility.
As well as it shows the possibility of a natural link to today’s Vedda native population. A significant discovery is that the Balangoda Man, who resided in the highlands, moved to the plains below. And they transitioned from hunter to farmer.
Bellanbandi Palassa also uncovered Meso-Neolithic hand axes constructed from elephant leg bone slabs. They found daggers or celts fashioned from sambar antler, in addition to the microliths. Similar sites have revealed the widespread use of ochre, domesticated dogs, differential spatial utilization, inferred graves, and extensive fire use from the same period
Other interesting Meso-neolithic cultural findings include personal ornaments and food animals. E.g., molluscan fragments, Fishbones, shark vertebra beads, seashell-based beads and pendants, lagoon shells, polished bone tools, carbonized wild banana, and breadfruit epicarpsare there with the findings
The frequency of appearing with which marine shells, shark teeth, and shark beads suggest; that the cave dwellers likely had direct touch with the coast some 40 kilometers distant in the several cave sites. The traces from Beli Lena shows the transportation of salt from shore to the Lena.
High mobility, the use of rainforest resources, and flexibility to changing climate and environment appear to have co-occurred with the microlithic tradition. According to researchers, geometric microliths found at Horton Plains in Sri Lanka’s central highlands imply that the area was inhabited throughout the Mesolithic time.
For one thing, prehistoric hunter-gatherers living in lowland rock-shelters probably regularly visited the Horton Plains to go hunting and harvest food like wild cereals as part of their annual cycle of food foraging. Horton Plains appears to have been used just as a transient campsite and not as a long-term colony
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