Padah-Lin Caves

The Padah-Lin Caves are limestone caves in Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar, consisting of two caves within the Panlaung Reserved Forest. Cave 1 contains Neolithic paintings in red ochre depicting wild boars, sun symbols, and hands that were painted rather than stencilled. Excavations from 1969-1972 yielded 1,600 stone artefacts with C14 dates ranging from 1,750 to 13,000 years BP. Cave 2 contains a 358m-long passage system with deposits dating to 65,000 years BP and flaked stone artifacts from 25,000 years BP. The caves were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 1996.