The excavations at Talakadu in Mysuru district not only helped push back the antiquity and the history of the region by several hundred years, but also enabled scholars to provide scientific evidence for emergence of sand dunes.
Talakadu on the banks of the Cauvery is a delight of archaeologists and the history of the region spans from the days of the Western Gangas, who ruled from the 4th to 10th centuries CE down to the modern times of the Wadiyars.
But the excavations conducted by the State Department of Archaeology Museums and Heritage since the 1990s and more recently a few years ago, yielded evidence that there existed a culture and human habitation during the Neolithic Age which translates to around 2000 BCE.
