Written by JMG Friday, 20 May 2011 14:03
The Bukit Bunuh archaeological site in Perak, which has thrown up evidence of the oldest “Old Stone Age” human culture to exist outside Africa, has been conferred a special geological status in an effort to help conserve the area. The Minerals and Geoscience Division of the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry has declared the site which was hit by a meteor some 1.83 million years ago as a new “Quaternary Stratigraphic Unit”.
The division’s director, Datuk Yunus Razak, said the declaration would help ease assessment of the area by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in being listed as a World Heritage Site.
“It is our responsibility to research this site and preserve it,” he said, pointing out that the site in the Lenggong basin is among only 27 in the world to house rare Suevite rocks from an alien meteor.
This site is also where one of the world’s earlier Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) societies with stone tools has been proven to exist by chronometric dating.
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