The Prehistoric periods are classified as Palaeolithic ( 10 Lakhs years ), Microlithic ( 10000 Years ), Neolithic ( 5000 – 3000 Years ), Chalcolithic ( 3000 – 2000 Years BCE, not confirmed ) and Megalithic 2500 Years and Pre Megalithic ( 1000 – 300 CE ). To understand the prehistory of Tamil Nadu as a whole and the Palaeolithic age of this region in particular, the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology established a small site museum at Poondi in 1985, for the benefit of the public, students and scholars. The pre historic site museum at Poondi is unique as it features the prehistoric heritage of this area. It is the only site Museum in India, which portrays regional prehistory.
The Tools and artefacts on the display includes Handaxes, cleavers, scrappers, discoids, Borers and core materials found in and around Poondi. These artefacts are made of quartzite rock pebbles encountered in the form of Conglomerate. Apart from Palaeolithic Tools, Microlithic, implements, Neolithic Celts, Megalithic Potteries, sarcophagi, three legged urn, Iron implements and fossil remains of wood, Snail and leaf are the other important display of this museum. The tools fall in a class of artefacts called Acheulian that Scientists believes that these were invented by the by the Homo Erectus - ancestors of modern Human - in Africa about 1.6 Million years ago. Archaeologists have discovered India’s Pre-Historic age stone tools, up to 1.5 Million years old, in these sites in South India. This discovery may change existing ideas about the earliest arrival of human ancestors from Africa to India. 
Life sized models of early Hominids, the scene of hunting animals, Elephant, dinosaur and rock portion with prehistoric paintings were erected in the open space in front of the museum established in the year 1993.Visiting Hours : 10.00 hrs to 17.00 Hrs and FRIDAY Holiday.
LOCATION OF THE MUSEUM : CLICK HERE
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