Tapurarang Archaeological Sites

Painting which is the site of ancient cliff in Andamata Coke, Kokas District, Fak-Fak, West Papua. This painting is a legacy from prehistoric times. One of the famous ancient sites in Coke is a painting on the steep rocky cliffs. By local people, climbing the steep rocks is usually called Tapurarang. Coke property in the District since prehistoric relics can be found in Andamata, Fior, Forir, Darembang, and Goras.

For local communities, the location of the cliff painting is a sacred place. They believe this painting is a form of people who are cursed by the ghost of a grandmother who turned into a demon or ghost kaborbor are believed to be the ruler of the ocean's most fearsome. This

grandmother died during the disaster that sank the boat he was traveling.

Of all passengers on the boat, this grandmother just died. It is said that none of the passengers on the boat who tried to help his grandmother to save themselves. Feeling hurt, ghost grandmother who has turned into a demon kaborbor condemn all passenger boats that tried to save themselves on the rock cliff. Due to the curse of all passengers and marine products are brought immediately turned into a cliff paintings.

In this cliff painting you also can see the skeletons of human bones. This framework is believed to be the ancestor or ancestors framework Coke community. In ancient times people here have a habit of putting the bodies of ancestors who died in the cliffs, caves, headlands or under a large tree that is considered sacred.

Skull found in the cliffs at Andamata, Kokas District, Fak-Fak, West Papua. This human skull is the remnant customs of local communities that do not bury the bodies of ancestors but put it on the cliffs, caves, headlands or under a large tree a special or sacred.