Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
Arranged in the lavish Lenggong Valley, the property incorporates four archeological destinations in two bunches which traverse near 2 million years, one of the longest records of early man in a solitary territory, and the most seasoned outside the African mainland. It highlights outside and cavern destinations with Paleolithic instrument workshops, confirmation of early innovation. The quantity of locales found in the generally contained zone proposes the nearness of a genuinely vast, semi-stationary populace with social stays from the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Metal ages.
The lavish Lenggong Valley on the Malay Peninsula contains proof in outdoors and hollow locales along the Perak River spreading over every one of the times of primate history outside Africa from 1.83 million to 1,700 years prior.
Undisturbed in situ Paleolithic stone apparatus workshops are situated on the shores of a pale lake and old stream rock informal lodging in a long sequential grouping.
A shooting star strike 1.83 million B.P. blocked and redirected the waterway saving Paleolithic instruments at Bukit Bunuh, where hand tomahawks are among the most seasoned so far found outside Africa. Examination recommends these were made by primates which in this manner give a greatly early date to primate nearness in South-East Asia.
A disastrous Toba volcanic emission 70,000 B.P. brought on surrender of a workshop site containing different apparatus sorts at Kota Tampan. Other workshop destinations date from 200,000-100,000 BP at Bukit Jawa, 40,000 BP at Bukit Bunuh and 1000 BP at Gua Harimau.
The relative plenitude of these locales insights at a generally extensive or semi inactive populace.
Perak Man was found inside Gua Gunung Runtuh cavern. Perak Man is South-East Asia's most seasoned most finish human skeleton. It is radiocarbon dated to 10,120 BP and distinguished as Australomelanesoid, a primate sort involving the western part of the Indonesia archipelago and mainland South-East Asia toward the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene.
Inside the substantial karst outcrop of Bukit Kepala Gajah are 20 hollows. Three of these, Gua Gunung Runtuh, Gua Teluk Kelawar and Gua Kajang, have uncovered ancient entombments.
Together these four locales in two bunches destinations speak to the grouping of huge stages in mankind's history unrivaled in the district.
The credibility of the property identifies with the wholeness of the destinations themselves and of their scene setting that permits comprehension of antiquated stream rock quaint little inns effect of fleeting effect. The reported confirmation underpins the qualities asserted for this site from 1.83 million to 1,700 years prior. The late (post 1987) Lenggong Valley research identifying with the narrative of early human movement guarantees the unwavering quality and legitimacy of the property. A great part of the documentation has been autonomously peer looked into through the scholastic distributed procedure, yet not yet on a completely universal scale. The ancient rarities and exploration are accessible for study.