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Patitasthan... When we think of Odisha, we think of Lord Jagannatha, Sea beaches, Konarka temple, Sambalpuri Sarees and much more. But we rarely think about the situation of Odisha in ancient times or How the people were at that time? Let us have a small look. Odisha was known as Kalinga, Utkala, Mahakantara, Odra, Oddiyana etc etc in different times. The human history in Odisha begins in the  Lower Paleolithic  era, as  Acheulian  tools dating to the period have been discovered in various places in the region. 140 million years ago ( mya ), the peninsular  India , including Odisha, was a part of the  Gondwana   supercontinent . Due to this, some of the oldest rocks in the subcontinent, dating to  Precambrian  times,  are found in Odisha. Some of the rocks, like the Mayurbhanj granite  pluton , have been dated to 3.09 billion years ago ( Ga ). The coal-fields in  Mahanadi  and  Ib  river basi...