Gua Gunung Runtuh, Lenggong




Gua Gunung Runtuh located at Bukit Kepala Gajah is one of eight limestone caves in the Lenggong Valley. Excavations started in 1990 and uncovered evidence of Late Palaeolithic artefacts dating back 13,000 years. The caves are said to be more than 54,0000 years old. The Man of Perak was the only Palaeolithic figure that was found intact in the country. From burial rites, burial offerings, shape and disease traces of the Perak Man paints a clearer picture of the community during the end of the Palaeolithic Pleistocene era.

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