JURNAL WALENNAE
Vol 13 No 2 (2011)

KAJIAN BENTUK-BENTUK PENGUBURAN KAYU DI MAMASA, SULAWESI BARAT

Akin Duli (Balai Arkeologi Sulawesi Selatan)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Nov -0001

Abstract

Kajian terhadap bentuk-bentuk penguburan kayu (keranda kayu) di daerah Mamasa, Sulawesi Barat, telah dilakukan oleh Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Global, Universiti Sains Malaysia, bekerjasama dengan Jurusan Arkeologi Universitas Hasanuddin dan Balai Arkeologi Makassar, pada akhir tahun 2010. Hasil dari kajian tersebut menunjukkan bahwa terdapat banyak sebaran situs keranda kayu di daerah Mamasa, yaitu telah ditemukan sebanyak 21 situs dengan ratusan buah peninggalan keranda kayu, yang terdiri dari bentuk perahu, kerbau, kuda, bulat dan bentuk rumah. Tata letak keranda kayu, selalu berada di kaki atau puncak tebing batu pasir, tidak jauh dari kampung tua atau sawah dan kebun. Hasil pertanggalan menunjukkan bahwa keranda kayu sudah ada sejak 730±50 BP (sekitar 1200 M) dan berlangsung terus hingga sekitar tahun 1970-an. Jumpaan lainnya adalah kerangka manusia, fragmen keranda kayu, gelang dari perunggu dan kerang, parang dan tombak dari besi, fragmen tembikar, fragmen keramik dari Dinasti Ming dan Ching dan benda-benda modern lainnya.Wooden casket studies have been undertaken in the region Mamasa, Sulawesi, by the Center for Archaeological Global Investigations, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, in collaboration with Universitas Hasanuddin and Balai Arkeologi Makassar, in late 2010. The results of these studies indicate that there are many wooden coffin sprinkling footprint in the region Mamasa, namely have found as many as 21 former site with hundreds of pieces of wood casket, which consists of a kind boat, buffalo, horses, round and form of the house. The way lies the wooden casket, always at the top of sandstone cliff, not far from the old village or the fields and gardens. Dating results showed that the wooden coffins have been around 730 ± 50 BP (about 1200 AD) and continue until about the 1970s. Another encounter was a human skeleton, coffin wood chips, poles, and bronze bracelets of shells, machetes and spears of iron, pottery fragments, splinters keramik China from the Ming and Ching and other modern objects.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

walennae

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities

Description

Walennae’s name was taken from the oldest river, archaeologically, which had flowed most of ancient life even today in South Sulawesi. Walennae Journal is published by Balai Arkeologi Sulawesi Selatan as a way of publication and information on research results in the archaeology and related ...