Keri: In heartening information for heritage conservationists, the prehistoric petroglyphs at Pansaimol in Rivona in South Goa have made it to the tentative Unesco World Heritage Websites checklist. The Unesco world heritage centre has written to the everlasting delegate of India informing the official concerning the inclusion.
The petroglyphs got here to be included within the checklist after the directorate of archaeology and museum of Maharashtra despatched a mixed proposal for the inclusion of the petroglyphs of the coastal Konkan area of Maharashtra and Goa, director of the Maharashtra division, Tejas Garge, mentioned.
The proposal was submitted to the central authorities final yr itemizing the petroglyphs of Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg districts and Goa’s Pansimol. Petroglyphs are diversified in form and measurement and embody human figures, birds, animals, geometrical varieties and composite creatures.
Greater than 600 figures have been present in clusters in Kasheli, Rundhye Tali, Devache Gothane, Barsu, Devi Hosol, Jambharun and Ukshi in Ratnagiri and Kudopi in Sindhudurg in Maharashtra, and in Pansaimol in Goa.
“It's a second of delight that one of many protected archaeological websites of Goa has been included within the tentative checklist. We had given our inputs for the proposal of Pansaimol petroglyphs,” assistant superintending archaeologist, directorate of archives and archaeology, Goa, Varad Sabnis, mentioned.
A horticulturist, Vithal Khandeparkar, who resides very near the protected web site in Goa, mentioned that villagers knew the petroglyphs as ‘rakhanyachi chitra’.
“I introduced the petroglyphs to the discover of former director of archaeology, Prakashchadra Shirodkar, and researcher Nandkumar Kamat in 1993. They highlighted the archaeological and prehistoric heritage related to it,” Khandeparkar mentioned.
Retired officer of the federal government of Maharashtra, Satish Lalit, who was instrumental in discovering the petroglyphs of Hevale close to Malvan in Maharashtra in Might 2001, mentioned, “The information about to the inclusion of the petroglyphs of Goa and Konkan area of Maharashtra within the tentative checklist of Unesco World Heritage Websites will definitely give new dimension to the wealthy historical past of the area and draw extra researchers.”