An archeologist from Papua Archaeological Center, Erlin Novita Idje Djami, together alongside her team, has works life 2 megalithic statues of Polynesian mode on the Mount Srobu site located inward Abepantai Village, Abepura District, Jayapura City, Papua Province.
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She added that the regain was extraordinary together with unique because the statues were unlike from those works life inward other areas inward Papua.
The 2 statues are i metre high together with weigh only about l to lx kilograms.
"The 2 statues together with other cultural materials are existence analyzed at the Papua Archaeological Center," Djami noted.
She revealed that the Srobu Mountain Site is i of the of import archaeological sites inward Jayapura city. This site is located on a cape inward Youtefa Gulf. This surface area is a house for some locals to hold off for shells every bit raw cloth to brand lime that is used for chewing betel.
"In Feb 2014, nosotros got information that at that spot were bones works life inward Srobu Mountain. The locals guessed the bones were those of Japanese soldiers," she remarked, adding that the Papua Archaeology Centre, together alongside the Provincial Culture together with Tourism Office, later on went to the place to banking concern fit the information.
"Surprisingly, nosotros non entirely works life bones but also diverse cultural objects, such every bit pottery fragments, rock tools, together with mollusks shells. I tin forcefulness out say that this is i of the dandy archaeological sites inward Papua," Djami revealed.
After that, the Papua Archaeology Centre educate a excogitation to bear the commencement question inward 2014.
"That year, nosotros carried out a surface survey but did non comprehend all areas. We also carried out excavations together with works life a seat out of rock axe artefacts, oval axes, together with tools made of shells, beside pottery alongside beautiful decoration, "he added.
According to east Djami , the findings of cultural objects characterize a civilization from prehistoric times.
"From the dating, the Mount Srobu site has been inhabited since 3,780 earlier introduce or BP. This agency the site is from Neolithic era, showing that Papua already has an extraordinary culture," she noted.
In add-on to Neolithic culture, inward 2015, the researchers also works life megalithic relics, inward the shape of menhirs together with dolmens, which were neatly arranged on the ground.
"We volition hold out along this question until this year. So, every year, our question on the Srobu Site discovers unique novel things that illustrate a cultural revolution at that location," she explained.
He hoped that the Srobu Site could hold out i of the historical tourist destinations inward Jayapura City inward particular, together with Papua, inward general.
"This Srobu Site is an opened upwards prehistoric settlement. Neolithic settlements inward Republic of Indonesia are really few, but inward Papua, the findings of this civilization are extraordinary," she elaborated, adding that Srobu Site is to a greater extent than unique than all the Neolithic or prehistoric short town sites inward Papua.
Source: AntaraNews [November 01, 2018]
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