Indonesiana Vol.13 The Charms of Indonesian Culture

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MUSEUM

Bukuran Cluster - Syefri Luwis

Sangiran Museum Memory of Three Evolutions

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What moves us to look at the museum

Try visiting Sangiran. The museum is

Sangiran site is the early human site

again? Previously, we think that just

just a storage building to store valuable

from the pleistocene epoch (2.5 million

because it is the duty that makes

collections, but it becomes part of the

to 11,500 years ago) which is the most

people want to visit the museum again,

site of early humans, the birthplace of

complete and important in Indonesia,

especially if it is located far away in

Javanese humans, who still continue to

or even Asia, since it was discovered

the corner of the village or even in the

reveal animal fossils, artifacts, and even

by G.H.R von Koenigswald through the

tableland. One example is the Sangiran

humans as the soil layers are exposed

discovery of the concentration of flake

Early Human Museum, which is located

during erosion or human activities. It is

tools in Ngebung Village in 1934, as

about 17 kilometers north of Surakarta

at this location that one of the centers of

written by Harry Widianto and Truman

Central Java. What is the reason that

human evolution of the world has been

Simanjuntak in the book Sangiran

makes us want to visit the Sangiran Early

telling the long story of humanity since

Menjawab Dunia (2011). With an overall

Human Museum?

1.5 million years ago.

area of 59.21 square kilometers in two

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