Harimau Cave or Tiger Cave is a limestone cavern in the
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
n island of
Sumatra where the island's first known
rock art has been discovered. The cave also held 66 skeletons of farmers from 3,000 years ago.
Archaeology
The
archaeological researcher
Truman Simanjuntak
Harry Truman Simanjuntak (born 1951) is an Indonesian archaeologist and prehistorian.
Education
Born 27 August 1951 in Pematangsiantar, North Sumatra, he first studied law in Medan and Yogyakarta and received a bachelor's degree in law, but lat ...
in
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
has discovered the first known examples of rock art and the remains of 66 people as well as the bones of pigs, dogs and chickens, dated to 3,000 years
BP, in a cave called ('Tiger Cave') in
Sumatra.
Tools were manufactured on the same site. The number of skeletons is the largest so far found in a single cave in Indonesia.
References
Landforms of Sumatra
Caves of Indonesia
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