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ID: 6000486
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000486
Record Type:
administrative
Attirampakkan (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 23 42 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 12.3959
decimal degrees
Long: 079 48 32 E
degrees minutes
Long: 79.8091
decimal degrees
Note:
Town famous for its ancient Shiva temple; site is oldest prehistoric stone tool culture site in India; Lower and Middle Pelaeolithic artifacts were found in stratified deposits at a small stream here.
Names:
Attirampakkan
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Attirampakkam
(
C
,
V
)
அச்சிறுப்பாக்கம்
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
India
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tamilnadu
(state) (
P
)
................
Attirampakkan
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
prehistoric site (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
Hindu (
C
)
Stone Age (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
அச்சிறுப்பாக்கம்..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Archaeological Survey of India [online] (2007-)
Attirampakkam..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Allchin and Allchin, Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan (1982)
Attirampakkan..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Allchin and Allchin, Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan (1982)
..........
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
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