Hands Of The Past In Leang Leang Cave
A piece of hand are attracts the attention of many people. It offered tours historic sites in the ancient cave Leang Leang, Sub Bantimurung, Maros, South Sulawesi. Rows of caves in the mountains stretch of Karst (limestone) is not only attracted the attention of tourists, but also scientists.
Handd Art at Leang Leang Cave
The road to where it was not too good, like a boat that passed up the choppy ocean. But the scene around him seemed to make the shock loss. Large rocks stacked neatly in black color in the large field and the tourists were treated to the karst landscape with very distinctive characteristics. In the region, there are two caves that can be visited, PettaE and Petta Kere. Two caves were located not far away. The first cave was seen as entering tourist areas like the park was built by local home as a place to rest, plus the street is reconstructed to facilitate visitors. You just need to climb the path that is not too steep, the height of about three meters from the ground. Iron fenced entrance to shoulder height, the door is a hand drawing was seen as a cave is not too deep. Besides palms, there are also deer, pigs and a spear, all are red. New challenges felt when visiting the second cave, Petta Kere.
Art pictures on Leang Leang walls
From Cave PettaE, Petta Kere can be reached by walking about 300 meters. Path to walk even has been built using cement and small stones. To enter the cave, there are two paths that can be taken. The first route uses road was good, the second line through the steps in between narrow rocks. The second cave is somewhat difficult to reach, height about 20 meters from the ground. But never fear, there is an iron staircase turn provided. This cave store more images than PettaE. There are about 27 pictures of hand, but that looks whole is only about 17 pictures. A picture of fat deer with a spear drew to the heart. In addition to the pictures on cave walls, around the cave was also found in the form of kitchen garbage and snail shells are scattered.
About Hand
The drawings were first discovered by HR van Heekeren and CHM Heeren Palm, Dutch archaeologists in 1950. Actually in this region are not only two caves that can be visited, there are hundreds and 50 of them already under government protection. But the most easily accessible are two caves. According to some researchers including Heeren Palm itself, hand drawings listed in the caves was a woman’s hand. It’s drawing more than 5,000 years. Its size is not too big and said not to be in the same time.
Drawing more than 5,000 years
About drawing hand, there are ancient traditions of local people says drawing his hand with fully fingers meaningful as a ‘repellent reinforcements’ while the hand with four fingers it means saying ‘sorry’. Images were made by pressing a hand to the wall of the cave, and then sprayed with a red liquid. There are currently no assurances that a liquid preservative, some say the red mineral (hematite) which are scattered around the cave (on the rocks at the bottom of the river and around the cave), some are saying the rock from which chewing gum tree as betel.
The place is not only attracts tourist and scientists, but also industry. Karst region of Maros-Pangkep that stretched 43,750 hectares had to be divided 20,000 hectares of mining area and made the rest of the conservation area Bantimurung National Park. On the other side of the road Leang Leang, in addition to tourism information are under the protection of Archeological Heritage Conservation Center-Ministry of Culture and Tourism, on the road before entering the region’s prehistoric caves were also found information that you enter the area of the marble industry. Based on the information travel guide Maros-Pangkep, in the karst region that there are tens companies that mine the marble and limestone, in addition to two large of cement companies must scramble the land to caves where human life from the past.
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