MegalithFringe site
Alula
Datedc. 5050–4950 BCE
No licensed photograph yetWe have no photograph we may publish for this site, so the interpretive 3D view leads instead.
Overview
About this site
What the sources say
Alula adalah sebuah kampung di Distrik Wita Waya, Kabupaten Jayawijaya, Provinsi Papua Pegunungan, Indonesia.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
Alula: the whole story
In briefSources for this section
Sources for this section
Alula is a village in Wita Waya District, Jayawijaya Regency, Papua Pegunungan Province, Indonesia. It is listed under the type “Other / unclassified,” and the available description identifies it as a kampung rather than providing details about a particular monument.
The information about what survives at Alula is limited. No description of stone structures, archaeological finds, standing stones, tombs or other visible remains is provided, so their presence, appearance and condition cannot be confirmed from the available material.
Alula is dated to 5050 BCE to 4950 BCE. This dating comes from a source statement, but no further information is given about the evidence, research methods, excavations or scholars associated with that date. No additional historical sequence for the place is available.
The name Alula is accompanied by the administrative names Wita Waya and Jayawijaya. No alternative names, legends or later history are supplied. In the wider context, Indonesia has a long-standing tradition of megalith-building, and such remains include menhirs, dolmens, stone tables, ancestral stone statues, upright stones, megalithic statues and stone enclosures. These forms occur across Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands and New Guinea, while comparable stone-based burial traditions on Sumba are still maintained today.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Indonesian article "Alula, Wita Waya, Jayawijaya", shown in the original language.
Summary in EnglishSources for this section
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Alula is a other / unclassified in Wita Waya, Indonesia. Wikidata describes it as: village in Jayawijaya Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. Dating: 5050 BCE to 4950 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Indonesian article "Alula, Wita Waya, Jayawijaya", shown in the original language.
Pranala luarSources for this section
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(Indonesia) Keputusan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nomor 050-145 Tahun 2022 tentang Pemberian dan Pemutakhiran Kode, Data Wilayah Administrasi Pemerintahan, dan Pulau tahun 2021
(Indonesia) Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nomor 72 Tahun 2019 tentang Perubahan atas Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nomor 137 Tahun 2017 tentang Kode dan Data Wilayah Administrasi Pemerintahan
(Indonesia) Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nomor 137 Tahun 2017 tentang Kode dan Data Wilayah Administrasi Pemerintahan
How this page was madeSources for this section
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Alula, Wita Waya, Jayawijaya”, translated from Indonesian. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Megalith traditions of Indonesia
Indonesia is one of the few places where megalith-building is still a living tradition. Among the Nias of North Sumatra, the Batak of the interior of North Sumatra, the people of Flores and Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara, and the Toraja of the interior of South Sulawesi, megalithic cultures remained preserved, isolated and undisturbed well into the late nineteenth century. Menhirs, dolmens, stone tables and ancestral stone statues are also found in sites in Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands and New Guinea.
On Sumba, the megalithic burials found in the central regions of the island go back thousands of years. This stone-based burial tradition is still kept alive by the Sumba people, and has become a "living ancient tradition" that scholars can observe today. The megalithic remains on the island include dolmen tombs, upright stones, megalithic statues, stone enclosures and levelled terraces, built and carved to a high standard. Quadrangular adzes unearthed in the Anakalang area are among the notable finds. Nias is best known for its festivals, including stone jumping, a manhood ritual in which young men leap over stone towers about two metres high; some historians and archaeologists have called its culture one of the few remaining megalithic cultures in existence, though this point of view is hotly debated.
Because the tradition has not stopped, it is hard to give a single date to a monument. Megalithic culture still flourished in places such as Nias and Toraja when other parts of Indonesia had already begun their historical periods, and script was unknown there. The Atlas gives such sites a broad range, and dating is often impossible without excavation.
When visiting, remember that these are the burial places and ritual landscapes of living communities. Ask permission and do not move stones.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megalith, Wikipedia: Sumba, Wikipedia: Nias, Wikipedia: Prehistoric Indonesia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
5050–4950 BCEHow this date was established: Stated by the sourceThe source gives one prehistoric year for permanent settlement and no separate end year. The source gives one year, so it is shown as a 100-year window (D-08).Source for this date
Measured facts
- Location
- Medina Province, Saudi ArabiaSource: Location
- Ancient role
- Capital of the Lihyanites and a market on the incense trade routeSource: Ancient role
- Jabal Ikmah
- Nearly 300 inscriptions in sandstoneSource: Jabal Ikmah
- Hegra
- Nabataean site 22 km north of the citySource: Hegra
- Current municipality
- Covers 2,391 square kilometresSource: Current municipality
- Agricultural development
- Significant oasis growth since the 1980sSource: Agricultural development
Where it stands
Indonesia
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 4°02′08″ S, 138°55′10″ EFor a GPS or map app: -4.03548, 138.91948
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
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Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q26236321wikidata.org
- 02Fringe claim sourceen.wikipedia.org
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Lore, kept apart
Legends and claims
These are stories and claims reported by the sources. They are not evidence, and they never stand in for the dating above.
- Tradition
The name Alula is accompanied by the administrative names Wita Waya and Jayawijaya.
The name Alula is accompanied by the administrative names Wita Waya and Jayawijaya. No alternative names, legends or later history are supplied. In the wider context, Indonesia has a long-standing tradition of megalith-building, and such remains include menhirs, dolmens, stone tables, ancestral stone statues, upright stones, megalithic statues and stone enclosures. These forms occur across Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands and New Guinea, while comparable stone-based burial traditions on Sumba are still maintained today.
Source
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Text from the Wikipedia article "Alula, Wita Waya, Jayawijaya" (Indonesian), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (Indonesian): Alula, Wita Waya, JayawijayaCC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q26236321CC0
- Fringe claim sourceCC BY-SA 4.0