[Talk] The Role of Geochemist in Bukit Bunuh Archaeological Research

An upcoming talk by Abdul Mutalib Abdullah on 24 September. Link to the Zoom webinar below.

Archaeological team from USM has been researching the Bukit Bunuh area in Lenggong Valley since 2001. In 2007, the archaeological investigation here revealed a man-made handaxe embedded in meteorite (suevite) rock and the fission-track dating of the meteorite rock provided a date of 1.83 million years. This date was later widely used as the minimum age for the man-made handaxe, and the presence of this man-made artefact is suggestive of the existence of hominin in this region during the early Pleistocene. Apart from the effort to trace the early hominin activity in Bukit Bunuh, a broad-body of work has also been dedicated to the study of meteorite impact to complement the archaeological investigations. This talk presents the geochemistry works conducted in the Bukit Bunuh Site since 2007 with a special focus on the identification of the trace elements and contamination of the meteorite remnants retrieved from Bukit Bunuh.

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