Bali has been inhabited for a long time. Sembiran, a village in northern Bali, was believed to have been home to the people of the Ice Age, proven by the discovery of stone axes and adzes.
Further discoveries of more sophisticated stone tools, agricultural techniques and basic pottery at Cekik in Bali's far west, point to the people of the Neolithic era. At Cekik, there is evidence of a settlement together with burial sites of around a hundred people thought to be from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age.
The massive drums of the Bronze Age, together with their stone moulds have been discovered throughout the Indonesian archipelago, including the most famous and largest drum in Southeast Asia, the Moon of Pejeng, nearly two metres wide, now housed in a temple in east Ubud. In East Java and Bali, there has also been a concentration of carved stone sarcophagi which you can see in the Bali Museum in Denpasar and the Museum Purbakala in Pejeng.
Culture of Bali
Bali Interesting Places
History of Bali
Of early traders and olden kingdoms Bali was busy with trade from as early as 200 BC. The prasasti, or... Mighty Majapahit and Golden Bali 1343 AD, is an important date in Bali's history. It was then that ... |