Museum Bali, the Pre-historical Period
Thursday, July 27th, 2006 by ablteamThe ground floor of Denpasar Building displays various pre-historical and historical collections of Bali consisting of relics and artifacts. Those collections are displayed in accordance with their periodization as follows:
1. The Pre-historical Period
This period is classified into four sub-periods, namely:
A. The hunting and early food gathering (Paleolithicum)
1,000,000 - 200,000 B.C.
The people in this period lived in wondering and always moved from one place to another to get a more fertile soil. Their equipments that were used for hunting or cutting things made from stone, still very simple in shape and coarse, called kapak genggam and kapak perimbas (hand axe). These collections have been found at Sembiran and Trunyan villages.






