Lie Siri

Lie Siri Cave is located near Venilale in East Timor

Lie Siri is a cave in East Timor . It is located on a high plateau near the coast, at an altitude of 240 m , in the west of the Baucau administrative office ( municipality of Baucau ). Lie Siri was washed off a coral limestone deck.

Various stone tools were found in Lie Siri which were dated to an age between 7515 ± 110 years calBP and 8088 ± 160 years calBP, as well as rock paintings. They are located in two places deep in the cave, there are both handprints and hand outlines in different shades of red. Only two impressions are in good condition.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Sue O'Connor: Nine New Painted Rock Art Sites from East Timor in the Context of the Western Pacific Region , Asia Perspectives, Vol. 42, No.1, 2003 , accessed April 6, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b Ryan J. Rabett: Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behavior during the Late Quaternary Cambridge 2012, limited preview in Google book search.

-8.435489 126.361992Coordinates: 8 ° 26 ′ 7.8 ″ S , 126 ° 21 ′ 43.2 ″ E

[Sue9-1] A ^b ^c Sue O'Connor: Nine New Painted Rock Art Sites from East Timor in the Context of the Western Pacific Region , Asia Perspectives, Vol. 42, No.1, 2003 , accessed April 6, 2020.

[Ryan-2] Ryan J. Rabett: Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behavior during the Late Quaternary Cambridge 2012, limited preview in Google book search.