Pallavaram came to the limelight after geologist Robert Bruce Foote, also known as the ‘father of Indian pre-history’, discovered a hand axe which indicated that the place had artefacts dating ...

Shanti, who has done research on Foote, said many Palaeolithic tools were found by other archaeologists during the time when Foote discovered the hand-made axe in Pallavaram. “But Foote’s ...

British geologist and archaeologist Robert Bruce Foote (1834-1912), who discovered the Palaeolithic hand-axes from Pallavaram here in May 1863, actually went around the Indian Peninsula with his ...

He found a hand-axe at Pallavaram and a cleaver at Attirampakkam. They were paleolithic tools. Human beings fashioned them out of stones more than five lakh years to 15 lakh years ago. Foote's ...