Question

Arikamedu is found in which of the following states of India?
A) Kerala
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Maharashtra
D) Gujrat

Answer 1

Hint:
Arikamedu is an archeological site in Southern India, in Kakkayanthope, Ariyankuppam Commune, Puducherry. It is 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) from the capital, Pondicherry of the Indian region of Puducherry.

Complete Answer:
Sir Mortimer Wheeler 1945, and Jean-Marie Casal led archeological unearthings there in 1947–1950. The site was recognized as the port of Podouke, known as an "emporium" in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and Ptolemy. Burrows have discovered Amphorae, Arretine products, Roman lights, dishes, glass and stone globules, and jewels at the site. In view of these unearthings, Wheeler presumed that the Arikamedu was a Greek (Yavana) general store that exchanged with Rome, beginning during the rule of Augustus Caesar, and kept going around 200 years—from the late first century BCE to the first and second hundreds of years CE. Resulting examination by Vimala Begley from 1989 to 1992 adjusted this evaluation, and now places the time of settlement from the second century BCE to the eighth century CE.
Huge discoveries at Arikamedu incorporate various Indo-Pacific dots, which encouraged fixing the time of its source. Red and dark earthenware production—known as massive stones or Pandukal in Tamil signifying "old stones'' and used to check graves—have existed at the site even preceding dates of the general store, and furthermore in later periods.Arikamedu is a beachfront fishing town, under the Ariyankuppam Panchayat, on the southeastern shore of India, 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) from Pondicherry, on the Pondicherry-Cuddalore street; it was initially a French frontier town. It is situated on the bank of the Ariyankuppam River (for most pieces of the year the waterway is viewed as a tidal pond), otherwise called Veerampattinam River, which frames the northern source of the Gingee River as it joins the Bay of Bengal. As the site is situated at the curve of the stream it gives security to maritime vessels that dock there.

So the correct answer is B.

Note:
The site has been dependent upon broad archeological unearthings. The archeological site is spread over a territory of 34.57 sections of land (13.99 ha) and has been heavily influenced by the Archeological Survey of India since 1982.