Mystery of Sikkim's 150,000-Year-Old Fossilized Antelope Horn

News published in the Voice of Sikkim regarding the discovery of megalithic structures around Dentam has excited me a lot. I have always believed that the land of Sikkim is not just old, but ancient, contrary to theories focusing only on 'young fold mountains.'

Attached is a newspaper clip from 2002 regarding Neolithic tools found in Sikkim by a team from the Archaeological Survey of India, Nagpur. According to historical records, the 150,000-year-old fossilized antelope horn found in Sajyong is particularly fascinating.

If the dating is accurate, this fossil pushes the timeline of animal life in the Sikkim Himalayas back to the Middle Pleistocene era—long before the Neolithic humans who left stone tools in the same region.

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