Medan - Archaeologists from North Sumatra found three stone axes from prehistory periode in an excavation in a land fortress site of Putri Hijau in Namorambe village, Deli Serdang regency.
The team consists of Medan Archeology Association, History and Social Sciences Studies Centre of Medan State‘s University and Aceh‘s Preservation of Archaeological Remains Association conducted the research for five days from October 21 to 25.
"The research finding proves that there was a pre-history life in the Putri Hijau fortress site," Eri Sudewo of Medan Archeology Association said here Sunday.
Besides stone axe, the team consists of 20 experts also found hundreds of ceramics pieces from the Ming dynasty in the 15th to 17th century AD., bullets from the Aceh‘s attack to Putri Hijau empire in the 13th or 14th century.
"From the findings, it can be recognized that the ceramics pieces shows the people of Aru empire‘s activities, where Putri Hijau hide from Ace‘s attack," he said.
The excavation was conducted in three areas--around the villages, chocolate plantation and around the mound predicted as the soil fortress of Aru empire.
"In each of the location, we dig a hole of one metre deep and about two metres wide. The locations are not too far from Deli river which predicted as the main transportation lane to this area," Sudewo added.
Aceh‘s Preservation of Archaeological Remains Association Head Phill Ichwan Azhari said from several visits to Putri Hijau fortress, his team found several pieces of ceramics predicted from China‘s Ming Dynasty.
"The findings before were from the land surface. We did the lattest excavation based on that findings and we found more archaeological remains," Azhari said.
"All of the findings will be brought to the laboratorium to find out the more detail result from the findings," he added.
Source: http://www.antaranews.com (October 26, 2008)
