GALERI ARKEOLOGI LENGGONG
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Since June 2012, the Lenggong Valley, some 50 km north of Kuala Kangsar, has been Malaysia's fourth Unesco-listed site, after the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca, Mount Kinabalu and the Niah Caves on Borneo. The area concerned by the listing comprises four archaeological sites in the lush Lenggong Valley, divided into two groups covering a period of almost two million years, one of the world's longest documented traces of the presence of early man in a single place, and the oldest outside Africa. It includes open-air sites and caves with Palaeolithic toolmaking workshops, testimony to early technology. The number of sites discovered in a relatively small area suggests the presence of a fairly large, semi-sedentary population with cultural remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Iron Age. The archaeological museum, surrounded by a palm grove, features a replica of the Perak Man, the oldest skeleton discovered on the Malaysian peninsula, the original being kept at the Muzium Negara in Kuala Lumpur. This virtually intact skeleton is thought to have survived for almost 11,000 years, safely ensconced in a cave.
To get there, you can either hire a car from Ipoh (100 km), or negotiate with a cab from Kuala Kangsar (100 km round trip, approx. RM150).
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