PUNE: Mangesh Navghane (28) delivers newspapers in the morning, and morphs into a history hunter in the latter half of the day.
A member of Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, an establishment that facilitates historical research, Navghane stumbled upon random drawings on rocks when he trekked to the hills bordering Ambi and Kadve villages in Velhe taluka of Pune district last month.The carved drawings reminded him of those found in Konkan and other areas of the state. He took some photos with his cellphone camera and sent them to Sachin Joshi, an archaeologist at Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute.
After taking a look at the photos, Joshi said these appeared like petroglyphs but unlike their Konkan counterparts, which are thousands of years old, these are about 300 years old as iron tools are needed to carve on basalt rock found in the region. However, Joshi said that a study would be carried out on the same.
“The drawings found in Konkan are made on laterite rocks, which can be carved by stone tools. However, Basal rocks are very hard and cannot be carved by stones. Hence iron tools must have been used to carve. If you look at the amount of weathering that has happened, it appears that the carvings are not more than 300 years’ old. Most of these carvings or drawings are of Shiva lingams and other patterns. Maybe, people who went to graze their cattle must have drawn them. Such drawings have also been found near Bhimashankar in Rajewadi village,” said Joshi.
Joshi praised Navghane for alerting him about the discovery. Archaeologist Rutvij Apte of Nisargyatri Sanstha has been working on preservation of petroglyphs in Konkan. According to him, the rock art in Velhe is also a form of petroglyphs or geoglyphs, but they are different from the ones found in Konkan. “It is most likely that the agrarian communities from the area have created them. Examples of such rock art are spread across state, but the ones in Konkan are from pre-historic times. These petroglyphs hold significant historical and cultural importance, and it is our responsibility to preserve them,” Apte said.
A member of Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, an establishment that facilitates historical research, Navghane stumbled upon random drawings on rocks when he trekked to the hills bordering Ambi and Kadve villages in Velhe taluka of Pune district last month.The carved drawings reminded him of those found in Konkan and other areas of the state. He took some photos with his cellphone camera and sent them to Sachin Joshi, an archaeologist at Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute.
After taking a look at the photos, Joshi said these appeared like petroglyphs but unlike their Konkan counterparts, which are thousands of years old, these are about 300 years old as iron tools are needed to carve on basalt rock found in the region. However, Joshi said that a study would be carried out on the same.
“The drawings found in Konkan are made on laterite rocks, which can be carved by stone tools. However, Basal rocks are very hard and cannot be carved by stones. Hence iron tools must have been used to carve. If you look at the amount of weathering that has happened, it appears that the carvings are not more than 300 years’ old. Most of these carvings or drawings are of Shiva lingams and other patterns. Maybe, people who went to graze their cattle must have drawn them. Such drawings have also been found near Bhimashankar in Rajewadi village,” said Joshi.
Joshi praised Navghane for alerting him about the discovery. Archaeologist Rutvij Apte of Nisargyatri Sanstha has been working on preservation of petroglyphs in Konkan. According to him, the rock art in Velhe is also a form of petroglyphs or geoglyphs, but they are different from the ones found in Konkan. “It is most likely that the agrarian communities from the area have created them. Examples of such rock art are spread across state, but the ones in Konkan are from pre-historic times. These petroglyphs hold significant historical and cultural importance, and it is our responsibility to preserve them,” Apte said.
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