Tag: archaeology

Abhayan G. S. and Rajesh S. V. write about findings from the ongoing excavation of an Iron Age burial in Kerala, delving into the minute details that could unlock important clues to past human settlements in the Kerala region over two thousand years ago.

The scope of archaeology in Kerala has remained limited, owing to persisting antiquarian attitude to archaeological remains, the conflation of archaeology with history, and the perception that Kerala lacks archaeological potential. Rachel Varghese revisits these assumptions, making a case for the possibilities that archaeology could offer for Kerala