Pangaea
Science tells us once upon a time, there was a supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated separated into their current configuration. Although there is no proof of Human evolution during this time, this geologic period, known as “Permian Period” was characterized among land vertebrates by the diversification of the early amniotes into the ancestral groups of the mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs and archosaurs. Present day India was embedded in this huge landmass sandwiched between Africa, Antarctica and Australia.
This period is ended by the Permian–Triassic extinction event, an extinction event that occurred 251.4 million years ago forming the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods. It was the Earth's most severe extinction event, with up to 96 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct;
Rifting and break-up of Pangaea
Pangaea began to rift from the Tethys Ocean in the east and the Pacific in the west, ultimately giving rise to the supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana.One rift resulted in a new ocean, the North Atlantic Ocean.The second major phase in the break-up of Pangaea began in the Early Cretaceous period, when the minor supercontinent of Gondwana separated into four multiple continents (Africa, South America, India and Antarctica/Australia). During this time many new types of dinosaurs appeared or came into prominence, including psittacosaurs, spinosaurs and coelurosaurs, while other survivors from the Late Jurassic continued.
500,000 years ago
There was a vast land mass that was submerged inside the Indian Ocean. It had a river also called "Pahruli Aaru". This land mass was there to the south of present day's Kanyakumari. Modern humans are believed to have evolved from archaic Homo sapiens, who in turn evolved from Homo erectus. Archaic homo sapiens are referred to as "Homo sapiens" because their brain size is very similar to that of modern humans. Archaic Homo sapiens had a brain size averaging 1200 to 1400 cubic centimeters, which overlaps with the range of modern humans. Archaics are distinguished from anatomically modern humans by having a thick skull, prominent brow ridges and the lack of a prominent chin.
Origin of language
The origin of language, known in linguistics as Glottogony, refers to the acquisition of the ability to use language by an earlier stage in the evolution of mankind. Robin Dunbar,a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, has argued that Archaic Homo sapiens were the first to use language. There was a single proto-language, sometimes called Proto-Human, from which all other languages spoken by humans descend. All human populations possess language. This includes populations, such as the Tasmanians and the Andamanese, who may have been isolated from the Old World continents for as long as 40,000 years. Two types of evidence support this theory.
Gestural language and vocal language depend on similar neural systems. The regions on the cortex that are responsible for mouth and hand movements border each other.
Nonhuman primates can use gestures or symbols for at least primitive communication, and some of their gestures resemble those of humans, such as the "begging posture", with the hands stretched out, which humans share with chimpanzees
200,000 to 50,000 BC: Porunai valley civilization
During this Age, other Islands elsewhere in the World were also connected to their continental neighbors - Britain to Europe; Cuba to Florida, Papua New Guinea and Tasmania to Australia and the Indonesian Isles of Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the South East Asian mainland. Ancient port cities on the coast of Eastern, Southern and Western India,
Humans have been living with a language and culture to communicate at least for 150,000 years. Any upheaval, which happened before that, is not in our cultural memory.
While the rest of the world were in dark ages, hunting and gathering food, root of civilization thrived in the region comprising the present day Tamil Nadu and the landmass south of it. The Madurai city mentioned in the ancient Tamil literature of Sangam age was located on the shores of Bay of Bengal. It submerged into the sea and the Pandya king redesigned the city at a place called Kapatapuram. This again was submerged after some time and so the King built third Madurai beyond the reaches of the sea.
Literature flourished with the establishment of first Academies of the world called Sangams. Popularly called Mudhal Sangam, this period was the beginning of grammar. The words Manthi and Manthan available in Tamil indicates that man evolved from monkey and this transformation is recorded in the first language of the world. The practice of Thenpulaththar worship that prevails in south India probably shows that they pray to their ancestors who died in sea disaster. In the Book, ‘Feeders of Indian Culture’ ,Upaththyaya claims that the world ‘Aanmanthi’ is the root of ‘Hanumanth’. As part f the geographical transformation, Kaverippoompattinam (Puhar) went under the sea.
Spear, once used as a tool by Hunters, became a weapon unifying civilizations. The evolution of Dravidian Marital art of Silambattam resulted in the evolution of first Army of the world. The use of Spear in various cultures ranging from the barbarians of ancient Rome, Greece, Australian aborigines, Red Indians and various negro civilizations is an ample proof that the seeds of human civilization are sowed from ancient Tamil civilization. Spear is revered as Vel or Muruga in ancient Tamil Nadu. The world “Aadhi Bagavan” in the ancient Tamil text of Thirukkural is a cryptic indication that Muruga is not a Hindu god but the God of ancient Tamils.
Aryan Contamination – Origin of Caste System
Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discuss scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas of settlement in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent and from there further across all of North India. Claims of Indo-Aryan migration are primarily drawn from linguistic evidence but also from a multitude of data stemming from Vedic religion, rituals, poetics as well as some aspects of social organization and chariot technology.
As the Dravidian master race pushed forward towards Himalayas, it inevitably made contact with the tribal Aryans who pushed from Europe towards modern day Pakistan. Once the Aryans were conquered and subjugated , ancient Dravidian cultures started civilizing the primitive Aryan tribes. This resulted in the origin of one of the oldest religions in the world, Hinduism.
The Aryan Races, for instance, now varying from dark brown, almost black, red-brown, yellow, down to the whitest creamy color, are yet of one and the same stock and sprang from one single progenitor,. This Race gave birth to a new Race, gradually transforming that portion of humanity which became "black with sin" into red-yellow and finally into brown-white races -- which now, together with the yellow races, form the great bulk of humanity.
To avoid further dilution of Dravidian superiority, so called mixed marriage of an "Aryan" with a "Dravidian" was forbidden. To maintain the purity of the Dravidian master race, eugenics was practiced. In order to eliminate "defective" citizens, Euthanasia Program was administered to rid the country of the mentally retarded or those born with genetic deficiencies, as well as those deemed to be racially inferior. Many of these policies are generally seen as being related to what eventually became known as the Caste System.
Summing up
The origin of Civilization can be summed up as follows:
251 to 199 million years BC: Archosauromorph reptiles progressively replaced the synapsids
5.332 million to 2.588 years BC: Primates continued their evolution
2.588 to 0.005 million years BC: Origin of human language
200,000 to 50,000 BC: evolution of "the Tamilian or Homo Dravida",
200,000 to 100,000 BC: beginnings of the Tamil language
50,000 BC: Kumari Kandam civilization
20,000 BC: A lost Tamil culture of the Easter Island which had an advanced civilization
16,000 BC: Lemuria submerged
6087 BC: Second Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king
3031 BC: A Chera prince in his wanderings in the Solomon Island saw wild sugarcane and started cultivation in Kumari Kandam.
1780 BC: The Third Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king
7th century BC: Tolkappiyam (the earliest known extant Tamil grammar)
Posted by Srinivasan Natarajan at Saturday, January 02, 2010
