HUNT AND COLLECT THE FOOD , Bali

At this time the lifestyle that comes from the past is still influential. Living hunting and collecting food contained in the surroundings continued to be evident from the form of tools made of stone, bones and shell.

Evidence of human life in the mesolithic era was found in 1961 in Selonding Cave, Pecatu (Badung). This cave is located in the limestone mountains on the Benoa Peninsula. In this area there is a larger cave is the Coral Cave Boma, but this cave does not provide a proof of life that ever took place there.

In Selonding Cave excavation found tools consisting of shale and drawn tools of stone and a number of tools of bone. Among the bone tools there are several muduk plot is a tool along the 5 cm that both ends are sharpened.


These tools are also found in a number of South Sulawesi caves at the level of cultural development of Toala and are well known in East Australia. Outside Bali, cave walls were found, depicting socioeconomic life and public confidence at the time.

The paintings on the wall of the cave or in the walls of the coral include the hand-stamped cap, the pig of the deer, the bird, the man, the boat, the sun symbol, the eye painting and so on.

Some of the other paintings are more developed in later traditions and the meaning of being lighter also include lizard paintings such as those found on Seram Island and Papua, possibly containing the magical powers considered to be the embodiment of the spirit of an ancestor or tribal chief.