Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak

Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak Malaysia

Lenggong Valley is a Unesco World Heritage Sites situated in Perak Malaysia. The Lenggong Archaeology Museum is an open air museum which houses numerous historical artifacts dating some 1.3 million years ago. Click here for details

Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak Summary

  • Attraction: Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak
  • Location: Perak Malaysia
  • Attraction Type: UNESCO

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Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak Malaysia

The Lenggong Archaeology Museum is an open air museum which houses numerous historical artifacts dating some 1.3 million years ago. The Lenggong Valley was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 30th June 2012.

Lenggong Archaeological Museum or Kota Tampan Archaeological Museum is located in Kota Tampan, near Lenggong. It is a pre-historical site dating back 74,000 years ago.

The city of Lenggong is located 100 kilometers to the north of Ipoh, through Kuala Kangsar (onwards to Grik). It is recognised as one of the oldest site of human activity in West Malaysia. Lenggong Archaeological Museum also displays ‘Perak Man’, the oldest human skeleton found in Peninsular Malaysia in the caves nearby. This skeleton is dated 10,000 to 11,000 years from the Stone age, starting in the Palaeolithic era.

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The Lenggong Archaeological Museum is situated near the Lipur Lata Kekabu Rainforest, only 2 km from the site.

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Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Malaysia

Situated in the lush Lenggong Valley, the property includes four archaeological sites in two clusters which span close to 2 million years, one of the longest records of early man in a single locality, and the oldest outside the African continent. It features open-air and cave sites with Palaeolithic tool workshops, evidence of early technology. The number of sites found in the relatively contained area suggests the presence of a fairly large, semi-sedentary population with cultural remains from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Metal ages.

Outstanding Universal Value – Brief synthesis

The lush Lenggong Valley on the Malay Peninsula contains evidence in open-air and cave sites along the Perak River spanning all the periods of hominid history outside Africa from 1.83 million to 1,700 years ago.

Undisturbed in situ Palaeolithic stone tool workshops are located on the shores of a paleolake and ancient river gravel beds and dated in a long chronological sequence.

A meteorite strike 1.83 million b.p. blocked and diverted the river preserving Palaeolithic tools at Bukit Bunuh, where hand axes are among the oldest so far discovered outside Africa. Analysis suggests these were made by hominids which thus provide an extremely early date for hominid presence in South-East Asia.

A catastrophic Toba volcanic eruption 70,000 b.p. caused abandonment of a workshop site containing multiple tool types at Kota Tampan. Other workshop sites date from 200,000-100,000 BP at Bukit Jawa, 40,000 BP at Bukit Bunuh and 1000 BP at Gua Harimau.

The relative abundance of these sites hints at a relatively large or semi sedentary population.

Perak Man was discovered within Gua Gunung Runtuh cave. Perak Man is South-East Asia’s oldest most complete human skeleton. It is radiocarbon dated to 10,120 BP and identified as Australomelanesoid, a hominid type occupying the western part of the Indonesia archipelago and continental South-East Asia at the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene.

Within the large karst outcrop of Bukit Kepala Gajah are 20 caves. Three of these, Gua Gunung Runtuh, Gua Teluk Kelawar and Gua Kajang, have revealed prehistoric burials.

Together these four sites in two clusters sites represent the sequence of significant stages in human history unrivalled in the region.

Criterion (iii) : The series of cave 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 also during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods from 1.83 million years ago to 1,700 years ago.

Criterion (iv) : The undisturbed in situ Palaeolithic stone tool workshops located on the shores of a paleolake and ancient river gravel beds and dated in a long chronological sequence are an outstanding ensemble of lithic technology.

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Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley - UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak Malaysia

The Lenggong Valley in northern Malaysia is a fascinating UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It's an archaeological site with evidence of human settlements dating back millions of years. But the most famous discovery here was Perak Man, one of the oldest near-complete skeletons found in south-east Asia. Let's check it out!

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Unesco Archaeological Heritage of lenggong Valley

Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak Malaysia

Situated in the lush Lenggong Valley, the property includes four archaeological sites in two clusters which span close to 2 million years, one of the longest records.

According to recent studies, Malaysia’s oldest and longest inhabited site is the Lenggong Valley, Upper Perak inhabited as early as 1.83 million years ago.

Lenggong Valley Unesco World Heritage Sites Perak is rich in archaeological sites from the Prehistoric Period.

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LENGGONG VALLEY LEGACY SDN BHD
No.83 KG.Hilir Teluk Batu,
33400 Lenggong, Perak
Tel : 019-233 9101

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