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History of Bali
 
Bali has been inhabited for a long time.
Sembiran
, a village in
northern Bali
, was believed tohave been home to the people of the
Ice Age
, proven by the discovery of stone axes and adzes.Further discoveries of more sophisticated stone tools, agricultural techniques and basic potteryat Cekik in Bali's far west, point to the people of the Neolithic era. At Cekik, there is evidence of asettlement together with burial sites of around a hundred people thought to be from the Neolithicthrough to the Bronze Age. The massive drums of the Bronze Age, together with their stonemoulds have been discovered throughout the Indonesian archipelago, including the most famousand largest drum in Southeast Asia, the Moon of Pejeng, nearly two meters wide, now housed in atemple in east Ubud. In East Java and Bali, there has also been a concentration of carved stonesarcophagi, which we can see in the Bali Museum in Denpasar and Purbakala Museum in Pejeng.Bali was busy with trade from as early as 200 BC. The prasasti, or metal inscriptions, Bali'searliest written records from the ninth century AD, show a significant Buddhist and Hinduinfluence; especially in the statues, bronzes and rock-cut caves around Mount Kawi and GajahCave. Balinese society was pretty sophisticated by about 900 AD. Their marriage portrait of theBalinese King Udayana to East Java's Princess Mahendratta is captured in a stone carving in the
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