Rock carvings in Goa

ROCK CARVINGS IN GOA

Goa is one of the most attractive tourist spot. It is mainly famous for its beaches.
But how many of you know about the rock carvings in Goa which are believed to have been created in Stone Age times. Very few people who may know about it.

Any ways if you ever visit Goa take some time out to travel south to the district of Quepem. Make your way via Tilamol town, down the main road, to Zambaulim. From there go further to Rivona and Colombo till you see a little wooded and rugged landscape. You’ll notice the sign board of Archaeological Survey of India.

When you reach you’ll come across an immense pit that has been scooped out of the red earth, a large water body gleaming from its center, like the watery mouth of some prehistoric beast.
The place – Kevan-Dhadole, Usgalimal of Pirla village in Sanguem Taluka is the site of Stone Age rock carvings. More than Hundred figures of creatures, craved deep into hard flesh of rock. Thousands of year ago in the dim reaches of the past when hunting and gathering communities sought to express themselves by creating forms on rock faces.

‘Rock Art’, in India there as many as twenty-two clusters of painted rock shelters.
The unusual creations in Usgalimal differ from these as they are on hard laterite rock with intense iron content. Apart from this – they are carved and not painted.

To explore these powerful creations, you will have to walk among them. Carvings reveal themselves as those like the zebu bull, deer, gaur, boar-like beasts.

You leave with the feeling that this is surely a place that should be visited by more people and perhaps should be protected and developed. ref - (Heritage India)