Rekonstruksi Lanskap Kabuyutan Bandung Utara

Abstract

The discussion on sacred buildings in Nusantara is too much in the central and eastern parts of Java. Whereas in the western part of Java or the Tatar Sunda there is the term kabuyutan which refers to the sacred buildings in the old Sundanese period. This research use archeological landscape study which is part of pasca-processual archaeology. This research is a qualitative research that discuss about landscape of kabuyutan at Northern Bandung. This research purpose is to find out relation between landscape and kabuyutan in Northern Bandung and to find out its meaning. The result from this research revealed the placement a kabuyutan based on people’s knowledge ancient Sunda on landscape. Ancient placement of kabuyutan was based on same knowledge about landscape. Inline with that findings, kabuyutan Northern Bandung landscape composed from Tingkatan (tiers) Niskala and Tingkatan (tiers) Sakala-Nikala.