Prehistoric Midden Excavated in Northern Sri Lanka - Archaeology Magazine

Prehistoric Midden Excavated in Northern Sri Lanka - Archaeology Magazine

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS—Phys.org reports that a shell midden dated to between 6,300 and 5,970 years ago has been discovered on Velanai Island in northern Sri Lanka by a team of researchers led by Thilanka Siriwardana of the University of Groningen and his colleagues. It had been previously thought that northern Sri Lanka was not occupied until the arrival of pastoralists from India in the fifth century B.C. because of its limited vegetation, …