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Sangiran
In 1891, Eugene Dubois, a French anthropologist discovered fossils of Pithecanthropus Erectus, the oldest Java man known. Again in 1930 and 1931, Ngandong Village, Trinil-Mojokerto, was marked with the discovery of fossils of a man that belonged to the Pleistocene Period. It revealed human history from many centuries ago. Prof. Dr. Van Koenigswald in 1936 found more evidence about human evolution. He discovered some fossils that support the theory of human growth from an ape-man to be man as we are now. Other fossils including those of mammoths (prehistoric elephant) are now preserved in the Bandung Geological Museum. In mid 1980, the finding of a complete 4 m tall elephant startled scientists. Nowadays, the villagers of Sangiran are making souvenirs from stones such as statues, axes, eggs, rings, etc to promote tourism. |
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Sangiran
is located 15 km from Surakarta. It is a village located 17 Km north
of Solo, on the road to Purwodadi. It is an important place for
Pithecanthropus Erectus, the pre-historic Java man. It is fossilized
land of prehistoric living things. The Pleistocene Museum keeps
some skills of the erectus, fossils of plants and animals. Sangiran
and other places such as Wajak (near Tulungangung) and Trinil (near
Ngawi) are significant places for human evolution/theory. It is
interesting place for scientific tourism in the field of geology,
anthropology and archeology. Many experts came to this site to do
some research and study among other; Van Es (1939), Duyfyes (1936),
Van Bemmelen (1937), Van Koeningswald (1938), Sartono (1960), Suradi
(1962) and Otto Sudarmaji (1976). Van Koeningswald said that more
than five different types of hominoid fossils have been found in
Sangiran, it was incredible. There is no other place in the world
like Sangiran. The Sangiran fossils are very various, they were
earth as well as sea fossils. There was a possibility that island
of Java was erected from the bottom of sea million years ago.  |
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