in agricultural society of Java. A study of bas-relief from the hidden foot of the 9th-century Borobudur in Central Java revealed that the ancient Javanese rice barn is remarkably similar to the Sundanese leuit lenggang (long stilted rice barn), which demonstrate a continuous tradition of rice barn construction in the island.

Form and materials

Leuit take basic form of triangular gable roofed structure, made of thatched materials

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