KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / PRE -HISTORIC KERALA / NOTES

 KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / PRE -HISTORIC KERALA / NOTES

KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / PRE -HISTORIC KERALA / NOTES

 

·       Kerala is believed to have originated by the withdrawal of sea, when Parasurama threw his axe from Gokarnam to Kanyakumary

·       Parasurama divided Kerala into 64 villages and donated them to Brahmins

·       Kalidasa’s Reghuvamsam mentions about Kerala

·       Famous Rock-cut caves in the Ambukuthi hills in the Wayanad district is known as Edakkal Caves

·       The prehistoric people of Kerala belonged to the Negrito race and Proto Australoids

·       From 3000 BC onwards Kerala had trade relations by sea with the Indus Valley People

·       Early inhabitants of Kerala belonged to the last phase of Middel Stone Age

·       Writings in the Edakkal Caves belonged to the Dravida Brahmi Script

·       Chathanparambu near Farrokh is a famous pre historic site in the Malabar region

 

KERALA PSC / KERALA HISTORY / PRE -HISTORIC KERALA / NOTES