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 basins are known to be one of the richest sites for fossils in the subcontinent. This ha