When Rajan, a labourer from Goolikkadavu in Attappady, took two old copper utensils to a shop at Anakkatty on Saturday for sale, he had little idea that he was carrying two pieces of antiquity with potential to throw light on a glorious riparian civilisation that existed in Attappady.
The shopkeeper, curious about the recent discoveries of historical relics from different places of Attappady, soon alerted the Sholayur panchayat officials. The civic team led by panchayat president P. Ramamurthy and councilor Radhakrishna Kurup took possession of the utensils and sought the help of archaeologists to date them.
A preliminary investigation done by some archaeologists found that the utensils belonged to Chalcolithic Age or Copper Age, which is widely being considered a transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
