India, Jan. 15 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
A new study has unearthed one of the most detailed climate records from peninsular India, below the modest Kondagai inland lake on the outskirts of Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga.
In land Tamil Nadu has almost no well-dated multiproxy lake records, despite being sensitive to the Northeast Monsoon. Kondagai Lake which lies close to Keeladi, a significant archaeological site, famous for unearthing evidence of a sophisticated urban civilization from the Sangam period, potentially dating back to the 6th century BCE (or even earlier), pushing back Tamil history by centuries. Researchers recognised that the lake, located in ancient settlement zones, offered a rare opportunity to understand...