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Two Dutch ladies standing by a statue in the Bada Valley in the 1930s. The Bada Valley or Napu Valley, located in the Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, contains hundreds of megaliths of undetermined age that are called watu ("stone") in the local Badaic languages and arca ("statue") in Indonesian.
People on Nias Island in Indonesia move a megalith to a construction site, circa 1915. Digitally restored. The Indonesian archipelago is the host of Austronesian megalith cultures both past and present. Several megalith sites and structures are also found across Indonesia.
Dolmen at Ganghwa Island, South Korea (c. 300 BC) Megalithic Batu Brak, Lampung Province, Indonesia (c. 2100 BC) Megalithic grave Harhoog in Keitum, Sylt, Germany (c. 3000 BC) A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 ...
Year Date Event 200 BCE "Dvipantara" or "Yawadvipa", a mystic Hindu kingdom is mentioned in India's earliest epic, the Ramayana; Sugriva, the chief of Rama's army dispatched his men to Yawadvipa in search of Sita then later used by the Indianized islander of Java Island and kingdom of Portugal to name the island during the age of discovery.
Historical evidence of megalithic structures and stone carvings that are found in the interior of the island proved that ancient Nias people practiced megalith culture. The caste system is also recognized in Nias society, [ 4 ] whereby the highest level out of the 12 levels in the Nias caste system is Balugu . [ 5 ]
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the Governor General of British Java (1811 to 1816) had a personal interest in the history, culture, and the antiquity of ancient Java, writing The History of Java, which was published in 1817. [10] During his administration, the ancient ruins of Borobudur, Prambanan and Trowulan came to light. This sparked a wider ...
Megaliths can be seen all over Indonesia, spreading from the East to the West. However, even with such a large distribution historians have yet to be able to exactly pinpoint a time and reason for the introduction of megaliths into the region. Theories suggest the culture started in Asia, Ancient Egypt, or along the Mediterranean.
The Pokekea Megalithic Site is a megalithic archaeological site in the Lore Lindu National Park. It is located in the Behoa (Besoa) Valley northwest of Bada Valley . The Behoa valley is notable for its preserved kalambas, megaliths shaped like large cylindrical stone vats.