Museum Fosil Sangiran

Sangiran Museum is the archaeological museum which is located in District Kalijambe, Sragen regency, Central Java province, Indonesia. The museum is adjacent to the ancient fossil site Sangiran area which is one of UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sangiran site has an area of 56 km ² covers three districts in Sragen (Gemolong, Kalijambe, and Plupuh) as well as incoming District Gondangrejo Karanganyar district. Sangiran was in the Sangiran Dome region, which is part of the depression Solo, at the foot of Mount Lawu (17 km from the city of Solo). Sangiran Museum and its archaeological sites, in addition to being interesting attractions is also an arena of research on the most important prehistoric life and the most comprehensive in Asia, even the world.

In museums and sites can be obtained Sangiran complete information about the patterns of early human life in Java, which accounts for the development of science such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Geology, Paleoanthropologi. In this Sangiran site also, for the first time, the fossils of the lower jaw Pithecantropus erectus (one species in the taxon Homo erectus) by the German archaeologist, Professor Von Koenigswald.

More interestingly, in the area of ​​the site are also traces of Sangiran 2 million year old remains of up to 200,000 years old can still be found up to now. Are relatively intact. So experts can assemble a common thread of a history that has ever happened in Sangiran, respectively. 


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