Bali

It is difficult to establish the roots of early Balinese society. The island, like much of Southeast Asia, was inhabited by an Australoid people about forty thousand years ago. About five thousand years ago, the first peoples of Malayo-Polynesian stock began settling along the coasts, and this settlement intensified from two thousand to three thousand years ago. Some direct Indian influence on Bali began in the 700s or 800s, and perhaps earlier; Javanese Hindu-Buddhist influence first occurred...