Rare things of the past dug out
Ancient skull of crocodile, earthen wares, statues found at Kotalipara
Three thousand-year-old skulls of crocodile and buffaloes and hundreds of years old pottery and statues have been dug out from the pond behind the Kotalipara Sadar union land office.Photo: STAR
Skull of crocodile, teeth of wild buffaloes, and earthen statues and wares have been unearthed while digging a pond in Kotalipara upazila of Gopalganj district. The items, found by workers engaged in digging a pond behind Kotalipara Sadar land office on April 5, have been kept under the custody of Kotalipara Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Kabir Mahmud. The items were found at different levels up to 20 feet below the land surface, the UNO said. The crocodile and wild buffaloes lived around 3,000 years ago, said Prof Dr Mozammel Haque of Jahangirnagar University (JU) archaeology department. Many fossils of elephants, teeth and skulls of wild buffalo were found in the layer of black earth found in Kalkini River flowing from Madaripur to Bagerhat district, he said. However, this is the first instance of discovery of crocodile skull in this layer. Dr Mozammel said the earthen statues and plates, found on the upper layer of the black earth, are about 500 to 800 years old. Extensive research should be done on these finds and government help is needed for it, said Dr Seema Haque, associate professor of JU archaeology department.
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