Today I got to hold a 4.5 lakh-year-old (1 lakh is 100,000 for the information of my Western audience) stone axe and other stone tools excavated by the ASI from Poondi, near Chennai. Our correspondent says that Poondi, now an arid region, must have had thick forests then - if the foot imprints of elephants and horses found several feet under ground are any indication. Archaelogists point out how one civilisation plays a see-saw - yesterday's centre of civilisation and prosperity becomes today's centre of poverty and backwardness. This strikes one when one looks at the affluence in the West and the chaos and despair in the Orient.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/05/13/stories/2006051322590300.htm
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4 comments:
while u were holding relics there i was watching them dig out
woolly mammoth fossils from our nearby city.. first construction workers found and kids and others were digging through it and finding fossils..!
and how they go about it.. and what they do after they find on site , where taken , how cleaned etc..
good to know about ancient history and sad to know now we r living above them..!
with out a clue until someone digs it out..!
take care ust
hi
once before also this thing was brought up.. 1 lakh =10 million?? u have here in your note..
here 1 lakh they say 100,thousand..
and 10 lakh=10,00,000
10 lakh=1 million(1,000,000)
1 crore=ten million
1 crore= 1,00,00,000
10 million= 10,000,000
the difference here is they put commas after hundreds place..
for some time it was bothering me.. just got time to put it on search.. in yahoo,starsearch..
check it out..i pulled it out from web.
us
yeah, sorry usha, 1 crore is 10 million and 1 lakh is 100,000.
RM
if u can change it in your blog , it would be nice.. so everyone who reads will be able to understand better. thanks.i love reading.. us
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