Archaeomagnetic Study and Dating of Tittakudi Archaeological Site in Tamilnadu, India

Abstract

Archaeomagnetic dating study has been carried out for the fragmented archaeological pottery samples collected from Tittakudi archaeological site in Tamilnadu. Various Mineral magnetic studies have been performed. The results obtained from the study showed all are highly magnetically enhanced except few samples. The samples having stable remanent property undergone paleointensity measurement and the mean paleointensity value of the sample is found to be 42.44± 0.2 mT and its age predicted around 170 BCE.