This book highlights the country’s most recent archaeological data, the findings of the Centre for Global Archaeological Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia. The evidence reveals cultural development from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic, to the Metal age therafter to early civilisation with each of its distinctive features. These developments and evolutions are closely associated with technology mastered by the early humans. Thus, they can become lessons and examples for us in carrying on with self progress and national development. As matter of fact, national archaeological data can contribute to the process of empowering national identity.
The author, Malaysia’s ‘first archaeologist’ and director of the Centre for Global Archaeological Research at Universiti Sains Malaysia, pulls together recent archaeological findings in Malaysia. He argues that the evidence from artifacts and structures used by the early inhabitants of the country are important in contributing to a rounded national identity.
