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| [[File:Cave1-entrance.jpg|thumb|cave entrance]] | |
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| [[File:Cupules-image-2.jpg|thumb|Cupules in cave piralimattam nedumala]]
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| The '''Nedumala Caves''' are in [[Piralimattam]]. They are located on the border of [[Idukki district]] and [[Ernakulam District]] in [[Kerala]] state, [[India]]. Piralimattom Nedumala hills is a prehistoric site. [[Caves]] well carved on granite rock and stone shelter are here. According to Dr. P. Rajendran, an archaeologist and UGC Research Scientist, caves are points towards its chronology to the [[Neolithic]] period of around 4000 BC.
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| The three caves discovered at Piralimattam in Nedumala have elaborate [[petroglyphs]] in [[Rock cupule|cupules]] and shallow grinding surface. At Piralimattam there are many concave cupules and grinding surfaces, both completed and in-completed. Even at the floor levels sight, excavations in future may unravel early [[Stone Age]] evidences from the thick deposit within the caves.
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| == Prehistoric rock-shelter ==
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| [[File:Stone-shelter.jpg|thumb|Prehistoric stone shelter]]
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| It is a man made shelter of the Prehistoric past having a large single rock slab of 4 meter length, 2 m width and 1.5 feet thickness which rests on two rock out-crops of 5 feet height. Shelter is in north-south direction and its opening is on the eastern side. Shelter has 5 feet height and can accommodate two or three people inside. Placing and carrying of such a heavy rock slab requires number of healthy human being and teamwork. The shelter seen at Paralimattam in Nedumala of Ernakulam district has no characteristics of a [[Dolmen]] or Muniyara of the [[Megalithic]] culture but is definitely a man made shelter in the past, possibly yet another type.
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| == Location ==
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| Piralimattam nedumala is in [[Manjalloor]] panchayath of [[Ernakulam]] district, Kerala. It is 3 km from [[Kadalikkadu]] and 5 km from [[Vazhakulam]]. Travellers have to negotiate a difficult terrain, cover a two-kilometre-stretch on the Kavana Pulukkayath kadavu via Kadalikkadu and scale small hills on the way.[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=9.92286,76.644788&ll=9.923748,76.644573&spn=0.024011,0.042272&num=1&t=h&z=15 Google Map]
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| ==References==
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| <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/a-hamlet-steeped-in-history-hidden-in-the-mists-of-time/article5382383.ece|title=A hamlet steeped in history, hidden in the mists of time|last=Raman|first=Giji K.|date=2013-11-23|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-04-24|last2=Raman|first2=Giji K.|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/prehistoric-rock-shelter-discovered/article5920960.ece|title=Prehistoric rock shelter discovered|last=K.raman|first=Giji|date=2014-04-17|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-04-24|last2=K.raman|first2=Giji|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/Inscriptions-Discovered-at-Piralimattam-Cave/2014/04/10/article2159258.ece|title=Inscriptions Discovered at Piralimattam Cave|last=Kannan|first=Ajith|date=2014-04-10|work=The New Indian Express|access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref>
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