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Kota Tampan is the earliest known site of human inhabitation.

Half of the captured area was then given to his son Kuthiravattath Tampan.

The culture at Kota Tampan is referred to as Tampanian.

Also, don't miss the blood-sucking sand tampan, which can survive for years in suspended animation as it awaits a human victim.

Excavations at Kota Tampan which began in 1938 revealed an undisturbed stone tool production area.

The tampan ticks within Ornithodoros moubata complex of species infest domestic pigs and also feed on humans.

Lampung textiles, Palepai, tatebin and tampan were called 'ship cloths' because ships are a common motif.

The two exceptions are the Kota Tampan and Bukit Jawa sites.

There were two types of smaller cloths, known as 'tatibin' and 'tampan', which could be owned and used by all levels of Lampungese society.

Bukit Jawa is therefore far older than the Kota Tampan workshop, which is just 6 km away.

Although the Kota Tampan workshop site is currently on a hillside, and in an oil palm plantation, the original site was on a lake shore.

There is also the Lenggong Archaeological Museum at Kota Tampan where artifacts excavated from the area are displayed.

All the archaeological remains found in Lenggong have been associated with caves, with the exception of Kota Tampan and Bukit Jawa.

An undisturbed stone tool production area where pebble tools were made using equipment such as anvils and hammer stones was excavated at the Kota Tampan archaeological site.

Argas walkerae Kaiser & Hoogstraal, 1969, as its common name "fowl tampan" reflects, is a soft-bodied argasid tick primarily parasitizing chickens and other domestic fowl.

The tatibin are similar in design to the single ship palepai but are smaller, not exceeding 1.5 M. The tampan maju beaded and also shorter than the large cloths.

Important archaeological sites include Kota Tampan, Bukit Jawa at Kampung Gelok and Kampung Temelong.

"We have a very poor tax base to support the growth needs of the state," said H. Lee Moffett, a fellow Tampan and former Democratic Speaker of the Florida House, who recently retired.

There is a large gap of some 17,000 years between Kota Tampan and the next archaeological site, Gua Gunung Runtuh, which has been attributed to the devastating effects of the Toba eruption.