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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.
The exact purpose of the megaliths is still unknown. The local community believes that the stones were used for ancestor worship. Additionally, the residents have stories about the origins of these megaliths. One story mentions a megalith named Tokala'ea, who was a rapist and was cursed to become a stone. [2]
Gunung Padang is an archaeological site located in Karyamukti, West Java, Indonesia, 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Cianjur.Located at 885 metres (2,904 ft) above sea level, the site covers a hill—an extinct volcano—in a series of five terraces bordered by retaining walls of stone that are accessed by 370 successive andesite steps rising about 95 metres (312 ft).
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.
This means that humans at both extremes of the Pleistocene Eurasian world, Europe and Indonesia, were producing rock art during the same time period. [15] The most notable rock art sites in Indonesia are the Maros-Pangkep rock art sites at the caves in South Sulawesi province. There are two distinct styles of art within these caves, both dated ...
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 ...
History portal See also: Candi_of_Indonesia and Category:Inscriptions in Indonesia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in Indonesia .
The Republic of Indonesia ratified the convention on 6 June 1989, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] As of 2023, there are ten World Heritage Sites in Indonesia, six of which are cultural and four are natural. This means Indonesia possesses the highest number of sites in Southeast Asia. [4]