PRE AND PROTOHISTORIC SETTLEMENT IN SRI LANKA
Mahroof 1992: 110), the major copper ore source at Seruvila, and the island's loion as an entrepot for longdistance trade between Southeast Asia and West Asia (note that black pepper in pharaonic Egypt of the 2nd millennium BC could only have come from Kerala, Sri Lanka or Southeast Asia). Thereafter, Sri Lanka's attraction for settlers from further afield than South .