| Krabi has perhaps
the country's oldest history of continued settlement. After
dating stone tools, ancient coloured pictures, beads, pottery
and skeletal remains found in the province's many cliffs and
caves, it is thought that Krabi has been home to homo sapiens
since the period 25,000-35,000 B.C. in recorded times it was
called the 'Ban Thai Samor', and was one of twelve towns that
used, before people were widely literate, the monkey for their
standard, At that time, c. 1,200 A.D., Krabi was tributary
to the kingdom of Ligor, a city on the Kra Peninsula's east
coast better known today as Nakorn Sri Thammarat. |