Chennai: Inhabitants of Keeladi, a Sangam Era site near Madurai that is about 2,600 years old, primarily relied on cattle rearing and agriculture, with substantial evidence indicating that the society was deeply involved in animal husbandry, according to a new report by the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology (TNSDA).

Studies on pollen and Phytoliths by the French Institute of Pondicherry, the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, and Deccan College, Pune, have shed light on the culinary habits, agricultural practices, domesticated animals, crops, wild animals, and the environment that prevailed during the Sangam Age.

The Sangam Age was pushed back by three centuries from what was previously believed in 2019, when carbon dating of artefacts unearthed at Keeladi indica

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