Homo sapiens balangodensis
As Homo sapiens balangodensis , fossils of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) who lived in Sri Lanka and whose oldest finds are tens of thousands of years old were designated. These fossils are not, however, a valid subspecies of Homo sapiens , but undoubtedly anatomically modern humans (“Balangoda culture”) who lived at the same time as the Cro-Magnon humans in Europe .
In a cave near the Sri Lankan town of Ella, paleontologists around Dr. Paul Deraniyagala ten skeletons of this local stone age culture. The Daily News reported on November 27, 2003 that these people are said to have already known acupuncture , which they also used on elephants to tame them; Furthermore, this population is said to have lived cannibalistically and belong to the ancestors of the Veddas , the indigenous people of Sri Lanka .
See also
Web links
- Early Man and the Rise of Civilization in Sri Lanka: the Archaeological Evidence
- Prehistoric Archeology in Ceylon
- Pre- and Protohistoric Settlement in Sri Lanka
- http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/palle1.html
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pepar Deraniyagala: Some aspects of the prehistory of Ceylon. Part IV: Some skeletal remains, implements and food of Balangoda Man. In: Spolia Zeylanica. Volume 27, No. 2, 1955, pp. 295-303.
- ↑ Alternative medicine healers eligible for Nobel Prize. On: dailynews.lk of November 27, 2003 ( Memento of March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )