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Between 1985 and 1989, archaeologists from The University of Indonesia and the National Research Center for Archaeology, Jakarta, undertook extensive surveys and identified two extremely important early proto-historical sites with brick-built remains at Batujaya and Cibuaya (West Java). They appear to offer evidence of a continuity of occupation from the prehistoric, through the protohistoric to the historical period. Initial observations suggest a connection between the Batujaya site and the Purnavarman inscription site in the hills west of Bogor. Chinese historical references mention early polities known variously as To-lo-mo and Ko-ying, thought to have existed in the western part of Java during the first millennium AD. Finds of a fragment of "Rouletted" pottery, together with glass and stone beads at Batujaya, link the site to the early metal age "Buni" Complex. The brick-built remains appear to be among the earliest known in Indonesia. This note summarises progress in investigations up to the end of 1993.
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