I met Perak man face to face last week.
And I went through a rabbit hole of mindblowing facts about Lenggong valley and prehistoric Malaysia. The fact that he lived around 10,000 years ago. He had a disability in one of his arms and that disability caused him to develop scoliosis, because overdepence of the other hand. Yet he lived until the age of 45 means he was cared and provided for by his community. He was given a proper ritualistic burial in a cave above ground, and buried together with animal and snail offerings and stone tools for his afterlife use. He must have been someone important at that time.
I came across another fact that there is also the existence of Perak woman, who was given similar burial in a different site, 2000 years after Perak man.
Also while digesting this facts, I also learnt that they also discovered an open air stone tools workshop, carbon dating to around 74,000 years ago. Almost 64,000 years before Perak man. Eruption of Toba volcano caused ash sedimentation at the site, preserving the workshop as it was left, 74,000 years ago.