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The recent rock drawings of the Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mokhtar Saidin  and
Paul S.C. Taçon
Mokhtar Saidin
Affiliation:
Centre for Global Archaeological Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia (Email: [email protected])
Paul S.C. Taçon
Affiliation:
School of Humanities, Gold Coast campus, Griffith University, Queensland 4222, Australia (Email: [email protected])
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The authors present and interpret rock drawings found in caves in the Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia. The drawings, which begin by depicting ritually important patterned mats, and continue with images of cars, bicycles and figures with their hands on their hips, provide rare and precious insights into how the indigenous people of the area came to terms with changes that occurred as the result of the arrival of Europeans in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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MalaysiaLenggong ValleyGua Badakrock artdrawings
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Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 328 , June 2011 , pp. 459 - 475
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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