Protohistoric settlement patterns
Found inside a limestone cave in 1994, Buddhist votive tablets made of clay indicate the existence of a protohistoric settlement at Bukit Cawas in Kelantan's interior.
Although the protohistoric period in Malaysia begins around 400 CE, sources of original Malaysian data before about 1000 CE are so scanty that historians depend to a large extent on foreign documents to compile a detailed picture of the situation in the Malay Peninsula during this span of time, known as the protohistoric period.
- Information in the full article includes
- Earliest confirmed sites
- Clues from early European maps
- Transpeninsular routes
- Settlement types