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[1] [6] [7] The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose oldest layers could be as old as the mid-2nd century BCE. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Old Tamil preserved many features of Proto-Dravidian , the reconstructed common ancestor of the Dravidian languages , including inventory of consonants, the ...
The region of Tamil Nadu in the southeast of modern India, shows evidence of having had continuous human habitation from 15,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE. [1] [2] Throughout its history, spanning the early Upper Paleolithic age to modern times, this region has coexisted with various external cultures.
Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus meets with an ambassador sent by the Pandyan King to Caesar Augustus, Strabo XV.1–73. [17] c. 1–100: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea gives a detailed description of early Chera and Pandya kingdom and mentions a part of the Tamil country as Lymirike (misread as "Damirica" by some modern scholars). [18]
South India in Sangam Period. In Old Tamil language, the term Tamilakam (Tamiḻakam, Purananuru 168. 18) referred to the whole of the ancient Tamil-speaking area, [web 1] corresponding roughly to the area known as southern India today, consisting of the territories of the present-day Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Tamilakam was the region inhabited by the ancient Tamil people. [1] While archelogical evidence points to hominids inhabiting the region nearly 400 millennia ago, it has been inhabited by modern humans continuously for more than 3,800 years.
Early Tamil epigraphy from the earliest times to the sixth century A.D. Harvard University Press. Mukund, Kanakalatha (1999). The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant. Orient Longman, Hyderabad. ISBN 978-81-250-1661-8. Pillai, K. N. Sivaraja (1984) [1932]. The Chronology of the Early Tamils. Asian Educational Services. Pillay, J.K. (1972).
Indus Valley Civilization, c. 3300 – c. 1700 BCE; ... one of three early cradles of civilisation in the Old World, [3] [4] ... Three Tamil dynasties, ...
Carbon dating of the artifacts in the area indicates an age of 785 BC. The finds of black and red pottery ware with old Tamil Brahmi scripts (two to four letters in a line or two), apart from drawn graffiti of the sun, fish, bow and arrow have been dated to a period between 3rd century BC and 2nd century AD. The occurrence of Roman ware, and ...