{"id":22216,"date":"2024-04-06T02:07:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22216"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:43:52","slug":"kumittipathi-rock-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kumittipathi-rock-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumittipathi Rock Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kumittipathi Rock Paintings:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These paintings are believed to be around 3,000 years old and are among the important rock arts in the Kongu region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme<\/strong>: The paintings depict an <strong>elephant, ther<\/strong> (chariot, some say it is a peacock), and the lives of <strong>early dwellers<\/strong> of the region.<\/li>\n<li>There are small pits and holes in the cave, which are believed to have been used to store water and other belongings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Material used:<\/strong> They used an inorganic white pigment, along with <strong>natural gum<\/strong> to paint the figures.<\/li>\n<li>While most of the rock painting sites in Tamil Nadu are found on rock shelters, those at Kumittipathi are <strong>drawn inside a cave.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What are geoglyphs?<\/h3>\n<p>Geoglyphs are a form of prehistoric rock art, created on the surface of laterite plateaus. They are made by removing a part of the rock surface through an incision, picking, carving or abrading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/the-rock-paintings-at-kumittipathi-testify-to-prehistoric-kongu-region\/article68029804.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The rock paintings at Kumittipathi testify to prehistoric Kongu region<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumittipathi Rock Paintingsare believed to be around 3,000 years old and are among the important rock arts in the Kongu region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}