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'''Kuthannoor''' (or '''Kuthanur''', '''Kuthannur''', '''Kuthanoor''') is a [[gram panchayat]] in the [[Palakkad district]], state of [[Kerala]], [[India]]. It is a local government organisation that serves the villages of [[Kuthannur-I]] and [[Kuthannur-II]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Reports of National Panchayat Directory |publisher=Ministry of Panchayati Raj |url=http://panchayatdirectory.gov.in/adminreps/viewGPmapcvills.asp?gpcode=224701&rlbtype=V |access-date=31 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101140828/http://panchayatdirectory.gov.in/adminreps/viewGPmapcvills.asp?gpcode=224701&rlbtype=V |archive-date=1 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is a part of the Tharoor assembly constituency.<ref name="Hindu-2001-03-15">{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/15/stories/2011031557370700.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320040657/http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/15/stories/2011031557370700.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 March 2011|title= LDF hopes to consolidate its victory in Palakkad |last=G.|first=Prabhakaran|date=15 March 2011|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=16 June 2012}}</ref>

One of the six "[[sangams]]" or associations of [[Tholpavakoothu]], a form of puppetry, originated in Kuthanur.<ref name="Hindu-20081003">{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/03/stories/2008100351230500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007002740/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/03/stories/2008100351230500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 October 2008|title=Shadow of the original |last=Krishnamachari |first=Suganthy |date=3 October 2008|access-date=16 June 2012|work=[[The Hindu]]|location=Chennai}}</ref> [[Krishnan Kutty Pulavar Memorial Tolpavakoothu & Puppet Centre]] perform puppetry performances at Nadumannath Bhagawathi and Kuthannur Kavu temples in Kuthanur.<ref name="Performances">{{cite web|url=http://www.mykerala.net/puppetry/|title=Tolpava Koothu - The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Kerala|last=Pulavar |first=K. K. Ramachandra |publisher=Rishnan Kutty Pulavar Memorial Tolpava Koothu & Puppet Centre |access-date=16 June 2012|location=Shoranur, Kerala}}</ref>

[[Megalithic]] relics have been discovered in ten acres of reserved forest at [[Muppuzha]], Kuthanoor. These comprise 100 port-hole cists that show strong similarities with [[dolmen]]s from different parts of Europe, such as the [[Iberian Peninsula]], France, Caucasus mountains, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Israel.<ref name="Hindu-20100605">{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/05/stories/2010060564980700.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601162359/http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/05/stories/2010060564980700.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 June 2011|title=Megalithic relics in neglected state|last=G.|first=Prabhakaran|date=5 June 2010|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=16 June 2012}}</ref> The ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology'' describes a port-hole cist thus: "a box-like burial chamber, largely underground and built of gneissic orthostats floorstone and capstone but arranged inside a rectangular pit scooped out of the native laterite. The e. orthostat has a port-hole which is blocked by a small slab on the outside. The entire structure is surrounded by a stone circle. The cist sometimes has a bench inside ..."<ref name="Ghosh1990">{{cite book|author=Amalananda Ghosh|title=An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wba-EZhZcfgC&pg=PA130|access-date=30 June 2012|year=1990|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-09264-8|page=130}}</ref>

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