In a two-storied building, past twinkling glass facades ofSaltmalkin skater cat shirt makers, Akhilesh Kumar was buried in a relatively low-tech activity. He was rhythmically hammering a quartzite stone block with hard and soft blows. It’s a ritual he settles down to everyday at his workspace in Chennai. This stone-tool-making experiment is his key to unraveling stories about prehistoric humans in India. “You must understand how these tools were actually made, and without experiments you can get stuck at some point of time,” said archaeologist Shanti Pappu, Kumar’s collaborator. Over two decades, the two have suffered a merciless sun and hissing reptiles as they shovelled for stone tools, or lithics, in Attirampakkam. ‘Lithic’ comes from the Greek word for stone, lithos. Attirampakkam is located along a meandering river northwest of Chennai, and is a national treasure of sorts. Some of India’s first prehistoric stone tools were discovered here over 150 years ago. In India, archaeologists rarely come across skulls and bones of ancient humans because a clammy environment catalyses their decomposition. However, stones are resilient to this assault, helping us chase the trails of human evolution and migration.
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