Golabai
Golabai Sasan is a village in Khurda District, Odisha, India at.
It is known for its medieval temple architecture. This settlement site is located on the north bank of the Malaguni River, North of Chilika lake.
Trial excavations in 1991, showed a succession of Chalcolithic and Iron Age assemblages, presumably dating to the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE. Sinha described the pottery and wares being of dull red and grey colours.
Excavations in 2003 and 2011, conducted by Prof. RK Mohanty of Deccan College and a multi-national team, showed that the site dates to the Neolithic Period.
Archaeobotanical analysis showed that the people living at this site grew and ate rice, browntop millet, mung bean, horsegram, pigeon pea and citrus fruits. Zooarchaeological analysis shows that they ate cattle, nilgai, chital, wild pig and possibly buffalo. They used animal bone and horn to make tools, such as bone harpoons and digging sticks. They lived in circular huts made from wood, with rammed earth floors.
Golbai Sasan, Sankarjang, Gopalpur, Ostapur, Suabarei and Khambeswaripali are some of the main sites in Odisha dating to the Neolithic-Chalcolithic periods.Transport
is situated on the Khurda Road–Visakhapatnam section of Khurda Road railway division of Indian Railways.
