Lene Hara cave

Lene Hara ( Léné Ara ) is a limestone cave near Tutuala, on the eastern tip of East Timor.

Archaeological finds

In Lene Hara cave paintings can be found, whose exact age was never determined. It is estimated from an age 2000-6000 years. The cave was first explored in 1963 by the Portuguese anthropologist António de Almeida.

In the 1990s examined Sue O'Connor from the Australian National University Lene Hara and the northern limestone overhang Ile Kere Kere. You could up to 30 up 35,000 years to prove settlements back. 2009 was found in Lene Hara faces that were engraved into the stone and are estimated at an age of 10,000 years.

One of the stone faces

View of the coast at Lene Hara from the island of Jaco