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Batadombalena

Batadombalena is an archaeological site with evidence of habitation from 8,000 years BCE, Balangoda Man, located 85 km from Colombo in Sri… Read more…

Opening hours

Monday4:15 AM–6:37 PM
Tuesday4:17 AM–6:35 PM
Wednesday4:18 AM–6:33 PM
Thursday4:19 AM–6:31 PM
Friday4:21 AM–6:29 PM
Saturday4:22 AM–6:27 PM
Sunday4:24 AM–6:25 PM
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Taxi · 8 min
Batadombalena
2h
Walk · 6 min
Corner Café
45 min
Walk · 18 min
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Batadombalena is an archaeological site with evidence of habitation from 8,000 years BCE, Balangoda Man, located 85 km from Colombo in Sri Lanka, a two-hour drive from Colombo.

The Batadombalena archaeological site contains evidence of habitation from as early as 8,000 years BCE and is one of the sites whose discoveries support the "Out of Africa" hypothesis, according to Professor Paul Mellars, a Cambridge University archaeologist. Among the evidence of Balangoda Man he unearthed at the site were stone tools that are interpreted as arrow - or spearheads and carefully shaped and perforated beads made from ostrich eggshell fragments. One particular piece of an ostrich eggshell, incised with a distinctive criss-cross motif, has also been discovered.

Batadombalena Cave has a size of roughly 50 ft × 60 ft × 80 ft.

Source: Wikipedia

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Address Sri Lanka
Coordinates 6°46'35.899" N, 80°23'46.346" E
Riverside Hotel
Taxi · 8 min
Batadombalena
2h
Walk · 6 min
Corner Café
45 min
Walk · 18 min
Riverside Hotel

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