Batadombalena
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Batadombalena is an archaeological site with evidence of habitation from 8,000 BCE, Balangoda Man, located 85 km from Colombo
in Sri Lanka
, a two hour drive from Colombo
.
Batadombalena is one of the archaeological sites located in Sri Lanka
which may prove the "out of Africa" hypothesis according to Professor Paul Mellars
, a Cambridge University archaeologist, as he may have found cultural and technological similarities that suggest a common origin.
The evidence he found of Balangoda Man in Batadombalena were some stone tools that may have been arrow- or spearheads, and carefully shaped and perforated beads made from fragments of ostrich eggshell. A further piece of ostrich eggshell, incised with a distinctive criss-cross motif, has also been found.
Batadombalena Cave is roughly 50 ft x 60 ft x 80 ft.
Colombo
Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...
in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, a two hour drive from Colombo
Colombo
Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...
.
Batadombalena is one of the archaeological sites located in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
which may prove the "out of Africa" hypothesis according to Professor Paul Mellars
Paul Mellars
Sir Paul Anthony Mellars FBA is Professor of Pre-History and Human Evolution in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.- Academic career:...
, a Cambridge University archaeologist, as he may have found cultural and technological similarities that suggest a common origin.
The evidence he found of Balangoda Man in Batadombalena were some stone tools that may have been arrow- or spearheads, and carefully shaped and perforated beads made from fragments of ostrich eggshell. A further piece of ostrich eggshell, incised with a distinctive criss-cross motif, has also been found.
Batadombalena Cave is roughly 50 ft x 60 ft x 80 ft.
External links
- Cave exploration tours in Sri Lanka
- Pre- and protohistoric settlement in Sri Lanka
- Pahiyangala (Fa-Hiengala) Caves
- Batadomba Lena
- Prehistoric basis for the rise of civilisation in Sri Lanka and southern India
- Here they lived and died
- http://townplanninginsrilanka.blogspot.com/2008/05/pre-and-protohistoric-settlement-in-sri.html Pre- and protohistoric settlement in Sri Lanka (abstract)