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‘Perak Man’ is the name given to the skeletal remains of a man thought to have lived about 11,000 years ago in the Lenggong Valley district of Hulu Perak. It is the oldest human skeleton found so far in Peninsular Malaysia.
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.
Feb 25, 2021 · Perak Man, the most complete skeleton found in Southeast Asia was uncovered at Gua Gunung Runtuh by a team or archaeologists led by Prof Datuk Dr Zuraina Majid in 1990. The excavation revealed a 10,000 – 11,000-year-old primary burial site of an adult man buried in the foetal position.
Feb 25, 2021 · Perak Man, the most complete skeleton found in Southeast Asia, was uncovered at Gua Gunung Runtuh by a team of archaeologists led by Prof Datuk Dr Zuraina Majid in 1990. The excavation revealed a 10,000-11,000-year-old primary burial site of an adult human buried in the foetal position.
It contained the 11,000-year-old Perak Man, the region’s best-preserved Stone Age skeleton – and the only one found with a genetic disorder, Brachymesophalangia type A2.
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.
Feb 25, 2021 · Named after the state he was discovered in, the remains of Orang Perak or Perak Man was unearthed in Gua Runtuh in Lenggong Valley, Perak in the 1990s which has been recognised as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
