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October 17, 2009 # 3:59 am # Historical, Museum, Surakarta (Solo), Tourism Site
The research in Sangiran was first conducted by a German man named G.H.R Von Koenigswald in 1930. He was recruited by the Dutch Government as a staff of the mining company in Bandung in 1930. He trained Sangiran people how to identify and manage the fossils professionally. The research results, then, was collected in Totomarsono’s house (the head of Krikilan Village) until 1975. At that time, there were many visitors who came to this place and later an idea to build a museum to display the fossils emerged. At first, Sangiran Museum was built on the 1,000 square meters area located beside the Village Hall of Krikilan (Balai Desa Krikilan). A new representative museum was built in 1980 to keep the discovered fossils and to give good service to the visitors. The museum was built on top of 16,675 square meters area with 750 square meters of the main building. It was decorated in a Javanese House Architecture (Joglo) and divided into certain sections, the show room, the hall, the laboratory, the library, the audio visual room (a place to watch movies about the pre-historic human civilization), the storage room, the mosque, the rest rooms, the parking area, and the art shops which display stone handicrafts called “The Beautiful Fortune Stone” (batu indah bertuah in Indonesian). They are made out of stones that are found in Cemoro River. Sangiran Museum will always be developed and completed with many supporting facilities to affirm its existence as one of the world ‘s heritage which plays a very significant role in science development. Nowadays, Sangiran Museum has turned into a huge museum with modern architecture.
In 1936, Von Koenigswald discovered Mandible (lower jaw) of hominid fossils for the first time. A year later, in 1937, he discovered a cranium in the edge of Cemoro River in Kecamatan Kalijambe. Nowadays, there are fifty human fossils that have been discovered in Sangiran Site. The taxonomy of Homo erectus experienced three stages of evolution, they are: Homo erectus archaic (firmer), Homo erectus tipik (slimmer), Homo erectus (progressive).
The most amazing thing about Sangiran Site is that we can observe the greatest unbroken layers of stratigraphy from the last Pleistocene era until the middle Pleistocene for about 2.000.000 to 250.000 years ago.
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