Skull Hill
The view of the grassy hillside south of Bukit Tengkorak or Skull Hill in Semporna, view from a volcanic rock embedded near the excavation site.
Up to now, the earliest neolithic evidence of inhabitants in Sabah are found around the bases of boulders strewn atop of Bukit Tengkorak, in a village called Kampong Tampi-Tampi in Semporna. Broken chips of earthenwares in thousands have been painstakingly brushed out from its burials, and among them,bony remains and exoskeletons of marine lives. Carbon dating suggested the chips and remains are 5000 years old or 3000 BC.
The undulating hillside facing the sea provides an unobtrusive passage for the winds and sea breezes to flow into the natural wind tunnels, holloways between the boulders, needed to fire the pottery kiln.
Up to now, the earliest neolithic evidence of inhabitants in Sabah are found around the bases of boulders strewn atop of Bukit Tengkorak, in a village called Kampong Tampi-Tampi in Semporna. Broken chips of earthenwares in thousands have been painstakingly brushed out from its burials, and among them,bony remains and exoskeletons of marine lives. Carbon dating suggested the chips and remains are 5000 years old or 3000 BC.
The undulating hillside facing the sea provides an unobtrusive passage for the winds and sea breezes to flow into the natural wind tunnels, holloways between the boulders, needed to fire the pottery kiln.
