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.