Unsolved:Bada Valley

Short description: Megalith site in Indonesia

Two Dutch ladies standing by a statue in Bada Valley in the 1930s

Bada Valley or Napu Valley, located in the Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, contains hundreds of megaliths of undetermined age that are called watu ("stone") in the local Badaic languages and arca ("statue") in Indonesian. The purpose of the megaliths and their builders are unknown.

Main Megaliths

Megalithic Baula statue in the Bada Valley

Two tourists next to the Palindo megalith in 2015.

Local Name	Translation	Size	Comments	Location
Palindo	Entertainer	4.5m		[ ⚑ ] 1°51′34.54″S 120°15′17.79″E
Mesinga	Wearing a Scarf
Maturu	Sleeping	3.5m
Oba	Monkey			[ ⚑ ] 1°52′6.99″S 120°13′53.26″E
Naime
Baula	Buffalo
Torumpana
Ari Ipohi				[ ⚑ ] 1°52′38.73″S 120°15′20.23″E
Loga	Relieved Heart			[ ⚑ ] 1°51′49.50″S 120°16′46.68″E
Langke Bulawa	Golden Bracelet	1.8m		[ ⚑ ] 1°51′11.23″S 120°17′29.50″E

See also

• Prehistoric Indonesia
• History of Indonesia
• Culture of Indonesia

Sources

• Tarling, Nicholas, The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia: From early times to c.1500, p. 134, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN:0-521-35505-2 and ISBN:0-521-35506-0