Cave and archaeological site in Myanmar
Cupules
at Padah-Lin Cave 1
Buddhist stupa at Padah-Lin Cave 1
The
Padah-Lin Caves
(
Burmese
:
????????
,
pronounced
[b?d?li??
?u]
; also
Padalin
or
Badalin
[1]
) are
limestone caves
located in
Taunggyi District
,
Shan State
,
Burma
(Myanmar). It is located near a path from Nyaunggyat to
Yebock
,
[2]
on a spur of the Nwalabo mountains within the
Panlaung Reserved Forest
.
[3]
There are two caves; the smaller of the two is a
rock shelter
while the larger cave comprises nine chambers connected by narrow passages in a north-south axis, three large sinkholes that let natural light in, and several active
speleothem
formations.
[4]
History
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]
A superficial investigation of the caves in Shan State had been performed by the American South-East Expedition for Early Man in 1937 and 1938, and geologist U Khin Maung Kyaw discovered the paintings in 1960.
[3]
In 1969?1972, the Burmese government organized a more in-depth investigation,
[3]
and another expedition to the caves was mounted in 2004.
[1]
The site was added to the
UNESCO
World Heritage
Tentative List on 4 October 1996 in the Cultural category.
[5]
Contents
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Red ochre
paintings of human hands, fish, bulls, bison, deer and other objects are visible at the rock shelter.
[5]
The art has not been directly dated. The walls of the cave have also been decorated with carved patterns.
[6]
More than 300
cupules
have been documented in the rockshelter.
[1]
Excavations at the rock shelter from 1969 to 1972 recovered seven pieces of charcoal and bone that were
radiocarbon dated
to between 1,750 and 13,000 years
BP
.
[4]
The excavation also recovered over 1,600 stone artifacts as well as many pieces of bone and red ochre.
[3]
The stone artifacts include unifacial choppers, bifacial chopping tools, perforated stone rings, adzes and scrapers.
[4]
Excavations in the larger cave conducted by
Ben Marwick
in 2016 revealed deposits dating to 65,000 years ago, and flaked stone artefacts dating to 25,000 years ago.
[7]
A small
Buddhist stupa
has been erected at the eastern end of the rockshelter, and several stupas of varying sizes have been built in the chambers of the cave.
See also
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References
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]
- ^
a
b
c
Tacon, Paul S. C.; Yee Yee Aung; Thorne, Alan (2004), "Myanmar prehistory: rare rock-markings revealed",
Archaeology in Oceania
,
39
(3): 138?139,
doi
:
10.1002/j.1834-4453.2004.tb00570.x
,
hdl
:
10072/22203
- ^
Whitley, David S. (2001),
Handbook of Rock Art Research
, Rowman Altamira, p.
770
,
ISBN
978-0-7425-0256-7
- ^
a
b
c
d
Aung Thaw (1969),
"The 'neolithic' culture of the Padah-Lin Caves"
(PDF)
,
Journal of Burma Research Society
,
52
(1): 9?23, archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2012-03-05
, retrieved
2009-09-06
- ^
a
b
c
Aung Thaw (1971), "The "Neolithic" Culture of the Padah-lin Caves",
Asian Perspectives
,
14
: 123?133
- ^
a
b
Badah-lin and associated caves - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
, Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ^
Yee Yee Aung (2008), "New discoveries in the Badah-lin caves, Myanmar",
12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Leiden, The Netherlands
, archived from
the original
on 2012-08-01
.
- ^
Schaarschmidt, Maria; Fu, Xiao; Li, Bo; Marwick, Ben; Khaing, Kyaw; Douka, Katerina; Roberts, Richard G. (2018).
"pIRIR and IR-RF dating of archaeological deposits at Badahlin and Gu Myaung Caves ? First luminescence ages for Myanmar"
.
Quaternary Geochronology
.
49
: 262?270.
doi
:
10.1016/j.quageo.2018.01.001
.
ISSN
1871-1014
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