A team of officials of Archaeology, Museum and Heritage Department, led by assistant director R Shejeshwar, has discovered a tool, belonging to the Neolithic or New Stone Age, at a farm at Kallahalli in Bhadravathi taluk.
The stone axe found in the farm, belonging to K R Venkatesh, measures 17 cm in length and six cm in width and dates back to 2500 BC. The point of the stone axe is sharp and it has sharp edge. Stones, streams were found to indicate that the place was a New Stone Age site.
As many as 27 Neolithic sites, including Aanaveri, Ashok Nagar, Nagasmudra, Nimbegondi, Bhagavathikere, Mathighatta, Vadderapura, Singanamane, Gonibeedu and B R Project in Bhadravathi taluk, have been discovered in the district so far.
JD(U) vice-President Shashikumar Gowda and Kallahalli gram panchayat members helped the officials to discover it.
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which man used stone widely to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.