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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