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The featured stories look at the new Indonesia–India conservation project at Prambanan, focusing on the temple complex’s ruined perwara shrines, and a striking Late Prehistoric find in northeast Thailand: a remarkably complete Phimai Black vessel discovered as water levels fell at Mun Bon Dam.⠀
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The featured stories look at the new Indonesia–India conservation project at Prambanan, focusing on the temple complex’s ruined perwara shrines, and a striking Late Prehistoric find in northeast Thailand: a remarkably complete Phimai Black vessel discovered as water levels fell at Mun Bon Dam.⠀
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Temples, pottery, reservoirs, and a little scheduled rest. Back again on 27 July.⠀
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via Tempo, 28 December 2019: The bottle gourd has been cultivated in Papua since prehistoric times. Article is in Bahasa. Thanks to Hari Suroto for the link.
Sejak kapan masyarakat pegunungan tengah Papua menanam labu air (Lagenaria siceraria) dan menjadikannya koteka? Berdasarkan cerita rakyat yang dipercaya Suku Dani di Lembah Baliem, pegunungan Jayawijaya, Papua, awalnya benih labu air bahan koteka dibawa oleh seekor anjing.
“Bibit labu air ini terdapat pada lipatan telinga seekor anjing, kemudian bibit tersebut diambil dan ditanam, hasilnya adalah tanaman labu air atau labu koteka,” ujar peneliti Balai Arkeologi Papua, Hari Suroto kepada Tempo, melalui email, Selasa, 24 Desember 2019.
Labu koteka merupakan salah satu jenis tanaman yang ditanam pada masa prasejarah. Lalu sejak kapan masyarakat pegunungan tengah Papua mengenal pertanian? Berdasarkan penelitian Haberle, peneliti Australia tahun 1991 di Rawa-rawa Kelela, Lembah Baliem, yang menganalisis sisa serbuk sari buah merah, dia berkesimpulan bahwa sejak 7.000 tahun lalu merupakan awal pertanian di Lembah Baliem.
Source: Mengenal Tanaman Prasejarah Labu Air, Bahan Dasar Koteka di Papua – Tekno Tempo.co
