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Maritime heritage in and around Chilika lake, Orissa: Geological evidences for its decline

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Title Maritime heritage in and around Chilika lake, Orissa: Geological evidences for its decline
 
Creator Tripati, S.
Vora, K.H.
 
Subject Chilka Lake
Sedimentation
Maritime heritage
 
Description Chilika (also spelt Chilka) lake is the largest brackish water body in India. Archaeological explorations and excavations around the Chilika lake region have brought to light the habitational remains of the Neolithic-Chalcolithic period onwards, datable to the 3rd millennium BC. The archaeological findings embodies to the fact that the well-known ports of the bygone era such as Manikapatna on Chilika coast, Palur on the extreme south and Che-li-ta-lo had close contacts with Africa, Ceylon, China and Southeast Asian countries. Further, a text of 10th century AD mentions about the maritime activities of the lake and ships, which used to ply to Southeast Asian countries from Chilika. Similarly, Soran, Nairi, Pathara and other villages around the lake have had glorious navigational traditions. The ports located around Chilika lake had played significant role in spreading the Indian culture to other countries. However, subsequent changes in hydrodynamic regime caused formation of sand bar, spits and altered sedimentation pattern, which eventually caused for decline of maritime activities in Chilika region.
In House Project, NIO, Goa
 
Date 2006-03-24T06:49:44Z
2006-03-24T06:49:44Z
2005
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Current Science, vol.88(7), 1175-1181p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/28
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Indian Academy of Sciences