Heritage Type
Geoarchaeological Site.
Value
Global.
Description
Geoarchaeological Site Kota Tampan is the site of an ancient Perak River gravel layer that was used as a workshop by prehistoric people to make their stone tools 74,000 years ago.
The presence of dust from the last eruption of Toba in the cracks of the artifacts suggests the cause of the destruction and extinction of the Lenggong Paleolithic man currently as well as the rest of the world.
The site area has been built Lenggong Valley Archaeological Gallery which houses the exhibition of all the prehistoric data of Lenggong Valley. It is one of the key sites within the Lenggong Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2012.
Significant
Kota Tampan strengthens Lenggong’s status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Other Heritage
This 74,000-year-old Paleolithic stone tool workshop demonstrates a direct relationship between humans and their environment, in which ancient communities utilized gravel deposits from the ancestral Sungai Perak within the Ancient Chenderoh Lake landscape, and ultimately destroyed by the Toba volcanic eruption.
