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Archaeological sites provide evidence of past history - Discuss.
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- Archaeology is the study of the past by interpretation of the material cultural remains.
- Such remains are unearthered by the Systematic excavation of old inhabitation sites called archaeological sites.
- Archaeological sites have mounds which are an accumulation of soil, pottery, building and organic remains and objects.
- In many parts of Tamil Nadu they are called Nattam, Kottai and Medu.
- Such sites provide evidence of how people lived in the past.
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