ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF THE LENGGONG VALLEY

INSCRIBED AS A WORLD HERITAGE SITE

The lush Lenggong Valley on the Malay Peninsula contains artefactual evidence in the open air and cave sites spanning all the periods of hominid history outside Africa. A meteorite  strike 1.83 million BP preserved Paleolithic tools at Bukit Bunuh, and a catastrophic Toba volcanic eruption 70,000 BP caused abandonment of a workshop site containing multiple of a workshop site containing multiple tool types in Kota Tampan. Other workshop sites date from 200,000 – 100,000 BP at Bukit Jawa 40,000 BP at Bukit and 1000 BP at Gua Harimau. Perak Man (10,000 BP) was found in Gua Gunung Cave site. Perak man is Southeast Asia’s oldest most complete skeleton. It is identified asAustralomelanesoid, a hominid type occupying the western part of Indonesia archipelago and continental SEA at the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene. The series of caves and open air sites along the Perak River in the Lenggong Valley is an exceptional testimony to occupation of the area particularly during the Palaeolithic era, but during the Neolithic and Bronze age periods from 1.83 million years ago to 1700 years ago. These sites represent one of the longest records of early man in a single locality in the world.