Unraveling The Past: Archaeology of Keralam and the Adjacent Regions in South India

Unique physiographical region on the south-West coast of India forms Keralam which is bounded on the west by the Arabian Sea and the east in fortified by the Western Ghats. Keralam, somehow, was never in the vision of north Indian Archaeologists and above all Historians in Keralam felt more comfort to go along with certain unfounded legends or hypothesis. Thus the human history of the region remained shrouded in mystery. The Prehistoric studies in Keralam have unraveled the cultural continuity in the region beginning from Lower paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Megalithic and early Historic, ect. The articles included in the next comprise Stone age studies, Brahmi Letters, Megalithic finds, ancient coins, ceramics and other artefacts, Human fossil studies, and Palaeo geomorphological interpretations.