Gunungpadang site is the site of prehistoric megalithic cultural heritage in West Java. Precisely located on the border hamlet and Panggulan Gunungpadang, Karyamukti Village, District Campaka, Cianjur. Vast complex "building" approximately 900 m², situated at an altitude of 885 m above sea level, and the site area is about 3 ha, making it the largest terraces punden complex in Southeast Asia.
The first reports about the existence of this site are loaded on the van de Oudheidkundige Rapporten Dienst (ROD, "Bulletin of Department of Antiquities") in 1914. Dutch historian, N. J. Krom also been alluded to in 1949. Having had "forgotten", in 1979 three local residents, Endi, Soma, and Abidin, reporting to Edi, inspectors Campaka Cultural District, the existence of a square pile of stones of various sizes are arranged in a place with staircase leading to the Mount Gede [1]. Furthermore, together with the Head of Cultural Section of the Ministry of Education Culture Cianjur, R. Adang Suwanda, he held a check. As follow-up study of archeology, history, and geology Arkenas Research Center conducted in 1979 on this site.
Location of the site is hilly steep and difficult to reach. Complexity of the elongated, covering the surface of a hill bordered by rows of large rectangular blocks of andesite. The site is surrounded by valleys are very deep [1]. It previously had been hallowed by the local residents. [2] The people regard it as a place of King Siliwangi, the king of Sunda, trying to build a palace in the night.
Function is estimated Gunungpadang site is a place of worship for the people who settled there in about 2000 years BC [2] and the results Rolan Mauludy Hokky Situngkir suggest a possible involvement of some of the stone megaliths of music that exist [3]. Gunungpadang Besides, there are some other site that is a relic Cianjur megalithic period.
Bujangga Manik manuscript from the 16th century mention a place "kabuyutan" (where the ancestors were honored by the Sundanese) in Ci dissimulation upstream, the river is known to disgorge around this place [4]. According to legend, the site Gunungpadang a regular meeting place (probably annual) all heads of Sundanese traditional Kuna. Currently the site is also still used by indigenous religious groups Sunda to worship.
The first reports about the existence of this site are loaded on the van de Oudheidkundige Rapporten Dienst (ROD, "Bulletin of Department of Antiquities") in 1914. Dutch historian, N. J. Krom also been alluded to in 1949. Having had "forgotten", in 1979 three local residents, Endi, Soma, and Abidin, reporting to Edi, inspectors Campaka Cultural District, the existence of a square pile of stones of various sizes are arranged in a place with staircase leading to the Mount Gede [1]. Furthermore, together with the Head of Cultural Section of the Ministry of Education Culture Cianjur, R. Adang Suwanda, he held a check. As follow-up study of archeology, history, and geology Arkenas Research Center conducted in 1979 on this site.
Location of the site is hilly steep and difficult to reach. Complexity of the elongated, covering the surface of a hill bordered by rows of large rectangular blocks of andesite. The site is surrounded by valleys are very deep [1]. It previously had been hallowed by the local residents. [2] The people regard it as a place of King Siliwangi, the king of Sunda, trying to build a palace in the night.
Function is estimated Gunungpadang site is a place of worship for the people who settled there in about 2000 years BC [2] and the results Rolan Mauludy Hokky Situngkir suggest a possible involvement of some of the stone megaliths of music that exist [3]. Gunungpadang Besides, there are some other site that is a relic Cianjur megalithic period.
Bujangga Manik manuscript from the 16th century mention a place "kabuyutan" (where the ancestors were honored by the Sundanese) in Ci dissimulation upstream, the river is known to disgorge around this place [4]. According to legend, the site Gunungpadang a regular meeting place (probably annual) all heads of Sundanese traditional Kuna. Currently the site is also still used by indigenous religious groups Sunda to worship.
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