පාහින්ඳගල
cal BS 38,000
Balangida man
2. Botadomba Lena
බැටදොම්ඹ ලෙන
Cal BS 31.000 to 36000
Foothills of Admas peak
Kuruwita
3. Batalanda Belilena
බෙලි ලෙන
cal BS 30,000 to 18,000.
cal BS 12,000 human bone remains
No possible link to Modern man.
Balangoda man
Tools from granilte and cheet and jasper
Granite or quartz 95% of the crude tools
Cheet more sharper tools
Jasper, sharper and more durable
Used at the tips of the wooden poles
Geometric flints of triangular, cresentric and quadratic
Bone tools
Monkey teeth to bore holes on leather.
May have worn a raincoat during rainy season.
Elephant Leg bones used for more durable tools.
Whether they hunted elephants or used remains of elephants is debatable but they were hunters slowly becoming social beings.
They moved 80km down and met seafaring tribes and බෙලි or බෙල්ලන් is the key word.
Primitive communication develeds as a result of Salt Trade.
Surprisingly no cave pinting and ochre use but some human bone were painted.
??? Chief of a clan.
Angular Cave entrance
Water going over the cave during rainy season
Unusually heavy rain
200feet above
5 miles away fron present
Wild breadfruit and nuts
Fresh water snails
Hunter, gatherer and thrived under harsh cinditions.
4. Bellan bannbu phalassa
බෙල්ලන් බැඳී පැලැස්ස
This is more modern.
Udawalawe
Living in Open places probably less rainy and the shelter would have been simpe huts.
18,000 to 12,000 cal BS.
Civilization and Societal hierarchy
Use of ochre for ornamentaion and body paint. The paint would have the first discovery of antibiotic wet paint not an oinment or liniment that we use.
