VARIASI MOTIF WAJAH DI SITUS LIANG PUEN, KABUPATEN LEMBATA

Liang Pu’en site is a limestone wall which located at Hingalamamengi Village, Lembata Island is one of the biggest petroglyph sites had found in Nusa Tenggara Timur territory. The depictions which engraved consists of face-like motifs, boats, zoomorphics, therianthropes and cupules. Between those five motifs, face-like motifs are unique because they were presented as a dominant motif and have various variation depictions. Face-like motif depictions are quite common in rock art sites, metal artifacts, potteries, as well as on megalithic traditions. Face-like motif are related with the symbolic believe of human past behavior. It represented the human relation or belief with the ancestors in this life or the afterlife. It also represent a community of people or the face of ancestors in Lembata Island at the past time.