{"id":28236,"date":"2024-11-25T05:36:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28236"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:28:20","slug":"kanhirapoil-megalithic-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kanhirapoil-megalithic-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanhirapoil Megalithic Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kanhirapoil Megalithic Site:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>state of Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major findings<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>24 pairs of <strong>prehistoric footprints<\/strong> and a <strong>human figure<\/strong> have been found carved into rock on private property.<\/li>\n<li>The carvings, made with <strong>iron tools, include footprints<\/strong> varying in size from six to ten inches, suggesting representations of both children and adults.<\/li>\n<li>At the end of the footprints, a human figure has been intricately etched, accompanied by four circular pits around it.<\/li>\n<li>These carvings bear similarities to prehistoric rock art found in Avalakki Pera in Udupi district in Karnataka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Megaliths<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These were constructed either <strong>as burial sites or commemorative<\/strong> (non-sepulchral) memorials<\/li>\n<li>The former are sites with actual burial remains, such as <strong>dolmenoid cists<\/strong> (box-shaped stone burial chambers), <strong>cairn circles<\/strong> (stone circles with defined peripheries) and capstones (distinctive mushroom-shaped burial chambers found mainly in Kerala).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Non-sepulchral megaliths include memorial sites such as menhirs.<\/li>\n<li>In India, archaeologists trace the majority of the <strong>megaliths to the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/iron-age\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Iron Age<\/strong><\/a> (1500 BC to 500 BC).<\/li>\n<li>In India, these are concentrated in the states of Maharashtra (mainly in Vidarbha), Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is archaeology?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or eco facts and cultural landscapes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/prehistoric-rock-cut-footprints-and-human-figure-unearthed-at-kanhirapoil\/article68893518.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prehistoric rock-cut footprints and human figure unearthed at Kanhirapoil in Kerala\u2019s Kasaragod<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanhirapoil Megalithic Site is located in the state of Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}