Megaliths of Jharkhand : THE AMAZING SIMILAR MEGALITHS IN INDIA AND LAOS

Sunday, 13 December 2015

THE AMAZING SIMILAR MEGALITHS IN INDIA AND LAOS

Both the above megaliths have an unusual architecture. These are columned structures with sharp vertical sides and holes at their top. These two megaliths are placed hundreds of miles apart. Archaeology has no name for such a megalith in India.

This is Laos. Strangely there is a similarity between the above shown megaliths with holes at their top in India and the one ones of Laos known as Jar Megaliths. However there are differences; the Laos ones comprise both the columned and the circular type but that of India houses only the columned types. The Laos megaliths as in the above photograph not only have holes at their top as that of India but unlike that of India these are hollow in the middle.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Indeed you are making a point.
Ben Wiilamson; 15 January 2016 at 20:31

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Each passing day numerous ancient megaliths get destroyed in India and we have no record of this disaster. It is sad that no government agencies like the ASI, the State Archaeological Depts and the District Administrations demonstrate any interest in their protection perhaps for their tribal origin and also possibly because megaliths to them do not appear to be significant relics of our land.

In actuality prehistoric megaliths are a significant source of our ancient history and their preservation is imperative as these monuments are evidences that India was indeed a land of the tribals in hoary times. A few of them however suggests that astronomy and geometry was known to the megalithic tribals millennias prior to the emergence of the Brahmanical astronomer/mathematicians. Obliteration of prehistoric megaliths is bound to erase this verity.