Historic caves with ancient paintings

The caves in Indonesia is not inferior to the caves in Europe for human affairs ancient cave paintings . For example, cave in Kampung Belae , Pangkep , South Sulawesi also has a hand stamp of ancient paintings and drawings of animals .
Kampung Belae , Pangkep , South Sulawesi surrounded by hundreds of caves . 50 Cave of them are prehistoric cave paintings which have many .

Paintings that appear in the caves that include hand stamp and pictures of animals such as fish and turtles . These paintings there are red and black .
" The red one was age older than the black ones. Evidently there is a cap with a red hand stamp overwritten with black hands , " said officer of Heritage Preservation Center , which guides detikTravel Chairuddin event geotrek International Cave Festival on Sunday ( 6/10 / 2013 ) yesterday .
One of the caves has many cave paintings are hand stamp Bulo Ribba or better known as Bulo Ribba Leang . According to the local language , means cave Leang . While Bulo derived from the fur , which means mountain , and Ribba is fly . However Chairuddin claimed to not know what the reason is named after a mountain cave fly .
" In the cave there are 25 hand stamp scattered on the walls and the ceiling , " he said .
Bulo cave ceiling Ribba high enough . Ceiling height of the lowest course of more than 2 meters . Still not known how early man could paint that high.
According to geologists ITB , Budi Prasetyo who also participated in the festival , a red dye that is seen in the hand stamp is probably a mixture of clay and resin . Both are finely ground , then sprayed on her hands pinned to the wall of the cave .
" How to spraying all kinds. Could be directly sprayed from the mouth , can also use bamboo , " said Budi .
As for the black dye , he derived from charcoal . Both paintings are still apparent even after millions of years old .
According to Budi , there are many reasons why ancient man cave painting . One is signifying power . The cave paintings indicate that it has been or is ever occupied .
" For animal paintings shows that the food that they consume at the time, " said Budi .
In addition to paintings , many in the form of waste shells scattered in the cave . The shell has been stuck firmly on the ground and stalactites .
" Trash the show kitchen . Part cave there are areas that are not garbage they use to sleep , " he said .
Meanwhile, the kind of cave ornaments are seen in the region averaged together . But the form of stalactite and stalagmite cave near the different houses that are located far from the cave of human life .
Bulo Ribba stalactite cave , which is only 406 meters away from the houses look like a sponge . Stalakitit long form is not looming as seen in Cave Kallibong Aloa , only in the form of small bumps with white . While in the cave Kallibong Aloa brown .
" Stalactites here vary due to exposure to air and light . Different strength also , stalactites here are stronger , " Budi said as he tapped his index finger into the stalactites .
So many things can be learned in the villages away from the city noise . If you are interested in venturing fringe cave paintings of early man as he saw , no harm come to the best second karst area in the world .

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