Wednesday 26 September 2012

Post number 7

Cave Painting in southeast Asia


There are a lot of cave paintings in this area for example in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma

In Thailand there are many galleries that have cave paintings in them on the Thai-Burmese border,Petchabun Range in Central Thailand, and overlooking the Mekong River in Nakorn Sawan Province.

The oldest paintings can be found in Malaysia at the Gua Tambun in Perak,these are 2000 years old. There are more in Niah caves National park these are dated back 1200 years.
The Negrito tribes came back to Malaysia caves to add modern objects to the cave paintings like cars this happened in the 1920s.

  Indonesia caves in Maros these are famous for the hand prints. Shown in the image above.

Also  in Padah-Lin Caves of Burna 11,000 paintings were found with many rock tools.

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