Lene Hara Cave 
Petroglyph of Lene Hara Cave. :: John Brush ancient and enigmatic stone faces carved into the walls of a limestone cave is well known in East Timor have been discovered by a team of scientists looking for fossils of extinct giant rats.
The archaeologists and paleontologists, including Ken Aplin of the CSIRO (Australian scientific organization) worked in Lene Hara Cave, in the northeast of East Timor. The Lene Hara carvings, or petroglyphs, are represented faces from a frontal perspective, and stylized, with eyes, nose and mouth. One has a circular touch that borders the face.
dating using uranium isotopes by specialists at the University of Queensland, Australia, has revealed that the hit is recorded about 10,000 to 12,000 years old, which places him in the late Pleistocene. The other faces have not been dated, but it is likely that are equally old.
Lene Hara Cave has been visited by archaeologists and rock art specialists from the early 1960's, to study its cave paintings, including boats, animals, human figures and various decorative details. The age of the pigments used in rock art from Lene Hara is unknown, but previously Professor Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University found more than 30,000 years old a piece of limestone with traces of red ocher. Although
found antique prints of stylized faces in Melanesia, Australia and various Pacific islands, the petroglyphs are the only Lene Hara dating which places them in the Pleistocene. On the other hand, it is known, there are petroglyphs of faces in any other part of the island of Timor.
The archaeologists and paleontologists, including Ken Aplin of the CSIRO (Australian scientific organization) worked in Lene Hara Cave, in the northeast of East Timor. The Lene Hara carvings, or petroglyphs, are represented faces from a frontal perspective, and stylized, with eyes, nose and mouth. One has a circular touch that borders the face.
dating using uranium isotopes by specialists at the University of Queensland, Australia, has revealed that the hit is recorded about 10,000 to 12,000 years old, which places him in the late Pleistocene. The other faces have not been dated, but it is likely that are equally old.
Lene Hara Cave has been visited by archaeologists and rock art specialists from the early 1960's, to study its cave paintings, including boats, animals, human figures and various decorative details. The age of the pigments used in rock art from Lene Hara is unknown, but previously Professor Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University found more than 30,000 years old a piece of limestone with traces of red ocher. Although
found antique prints of stylized faces in Melanesia, Australia and various Pacific islands, the petroglyphs are the only Lene Hara dating which places them in the Pleistocene. On the other hand, it is known, there are petroglyphs of faces in any other part of the island of Timor.
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