Batadombalena is an

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site with evidence of habitation from 8,000 years BCE,

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, located from

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, a two-hour drive from

. The Batadombalena archaeological site contains evidence of habitation from as early as 8,000 years BCE and is one of the sites whose discoveries support the "

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archaeologist. Among the evidence of

he unearthed at the site were stone tools that are interpreted as arrow - or spearheads and carefully shaped and perforated beads made from ostrich eggshell fragments. One particular piece of an ostrich eggshell, incised with a distinctive criss-cross motif, has also been discovered. Batadombalena Cave has a size of roughly .

References

* Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, "Fa Hien Cave", in ''

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"Pre- and Protohistoric settlement in Sri Lanka"
— S. U. Deraniyagala, Director-General of Archaeology, Sri Lanka * Kenneth A. R. Kennedy and Siran U. Deraniyagala, ''Fossil remains of 28,000-year old hominids from Sri Lanka,'' Current Anthropology, Vol. 30, No. 3. (Jun., 1989), pp. 394–399. * Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, T. Disotell, W. J. Roertgen, J. Chiment and J. Sherry, ''Biological anthropology of upper Pleistocene hominids from Sri Lanka: Batadomba Lena and Beli Lena caves'', Ancient Ceylon 6: 165-265. * Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Siran U. Deraniyagala, W. J. Roertgen, J. Chiment and T. Disotell, ''Upper Pleistocene fossil hominids from Sri Lanka'', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 72: 441-461, 1987.

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Professor Paul Mellars

External links

* ttp://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/palle2.html Here they lived and died Prehistoric Sri Lanka Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka Caves of Sri Lanka {{SriLanka-stub

See also

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