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Natural PlacesSite Name: Edakkal Caves Alternative Name: ThovarymalaCountry: India
NOTE: This site is 63.396 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Sulthan Bathery Nearest Village: Ambalavayal
Latitude: 11.664236N Longitude: 76.262726E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Cave in Kerala, India. Edakkal is a remotely located place in the Wayanad district of Kerala in India. The tallest mountain in the district named Ambukuthi mala is here. Three pre-historic caves (Edakkal Caves), dating from around 8,000 BC and after had been discovered here at a height of 1000 mts on Ambukuthi Mala.
You have to alight at Edakkal and do a 1 km trekking to reach these caves. One can see the new stone age pictorial writings on the walls of these natural caves (Cave murals).
Carvings on the walls of Edakkal Caves were created during different time periods. The oldest carvings date from the Neolithic Period. It was the British Officer stationed here, during a hunting expedition, came across these caves.
Web site with more information and photos at http://www.edakkal.com
IMPORTANT NOTE: The location given is for the nearby town of Sulthan Bathery. A more accurate long/lat would be appreciate.
Note: Neolithic rock carvings in remote Indian province facing neglect, see comment. This page features the nearby Edakkal caves which are also full of prehistoric rock art.
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