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.
