Archaeologists digging at Kota Tampan unearthed evidence of a 34,000-year-old pre-historic workshop for making stone tools. Excavations revealed an undisturbed stone tool production area, where pebble tools were made. Some 50,000 pieces of stone were found. The age of the site was redated at 75,000 years. In 1992 Kota Tampan was was considered the earliest known site of human inhabitation in Malaysia.
Kota Tampan is located about 5 km south of Lenggong. I visited the site in January 1994. There was not much to see, apart from a small dig covered by a roof in the middle of an oil palm plantation.
Entrance to the site
It looked like nothing was being done to preserve the site. And apparently when the Lenggong Musuem was constructed, it was built over the Kota Tampan site!!!!
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