Karikiyoor Rock Paintings

The Researchers have discovered 5000-year-old rock paintings at Karikiyoor in Nilgiris.

About Korikiyoor painting:

It is located in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.
It is a series of over 300 images etched on the side of the cliff-face in Kothagiri.
A variety of subjects are depicted in great detail that includes:

communities that lived in the area at that period.
the wildlife they witnessed and their relationships with them
the battles with other communities

It is believed to be more than 5,000 years old as no scientific dating has been done on the site.

Feature of painting

These images are all drawn using earthen paints.
The images depict a gradual shift from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the initial drawings to a pastoral and, eventually, a settled agrarian lifestyle in the later part of the drawings.
The shift indicates that the rock art site got added on by different groups at different stages in its history.
There are other smaller cave painting sites hidden deep inside the reserve forests.
James Wilkinson Breeks, a civil servant has documented 18 distinct rock art sites in his book “An Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilgiris.”
Local indigenous communities, especially the Irulas and the Kurumbas, have an attachment to these sites.
Most of these sites are located near the settlements of these aboriginal groups.
They believe the sites are the ancestral abodes of their forefathers, and this belief has helped in conserving these sites so far.
The Kurumbas claim a link to the Vellarikombai rock art site while in Karikiyoor and Sigur, the rock art sites are claimed by the Irulas.
Vandals have defaced some of the rock art, painting political and religious symbols on the images.

Source: The Hindu

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