Sangiran Museum of Ancient Man 

Sangiran Museum of Ancient Man

 

Sangiran is an archaeological site museum which said person is a complete website in Asia. , The area is about 56 km2, 15 km north of the city of Solo 
This museum is one of the world's centers of human evolution, which depicts the story of human change for over a million years. 

An estimated 80 individuals hominid Homo erectus have been found who lived 1.5 million years ago. The number is still growing because of possible ancient sediments Sangiran fossils buried many people, animals, plants, and rocks as part of a past life. 
Ancient Man Museum in Sangiran SragenSragen is one of regencies in Central Java province, adjacent to the city of Solo, Surakarta residency under the direct border with the province of East Java. Thus, Sragen is a gateway into Central Java from the east.Sragen has an area of ​​941.55 KM 2, with topography as follows: in the midst of the flowing Bengawan Solo River which is the longest river in Java; area is part of the south slope of Mount Lawu; north is part of Kendeng Mountains , and west is an area that is very well known as "Sangiran Dome".
 Regions in the village of Sangiran Museum Krikilan, District Kalijambe. Sangiran region save a lot of fossils from the era pleistocen (+ 2 million years ago). The fossils of these ancient fossils are hominids 65% in Indonesia and 50% worldwide. To date more than 13,685 have been found 2931 fossil fossils in the Museum, the rest is stored in the warehouse.As the world's cultural heritage, this museum has excellent facilities including: the exhibition hall (human fossils, ancient animals), laboratory, warehouse fossils, a slide and a typical souvenir stalls Sangiran.

Sangiran has many features, based on the research of geologists used in ancient times an expanse of ocean. As a result of geological processes and natural disasters Lawu eruption, Mount Merapi, and Merbabu, Sangiran into Mainland. This is evidenced by the layers of soil-forming regions are very different Sangiran soil elsewhere. Each soil was discovered the fossils by type and era. For example, many sea animal fossils found at the bottom of the soil layer, which used to be the sea.Sangiran become one of the most important sites for the development of science, particularly in the fields of anthropology, archeology, bologi, paleontology, geology, and also in the field of tourism. Sangiran existence as one of the early human fossils can not be released study by paleoanthropologist named Gustav Heinrich von Koenigswald in 1934. The first discovery is a type of ancient human fossils Pithecanthropus Erectus or commonly called the human Java. 
There is a pair of giant ivory towered above the entrance gate Sangiran Museum of Ancient Man.Museum which has the motto of the homeland of the java man gives a very comprehensive presentation of information about early human life, from the habitats where they live, the pattern of life in those days, the animals living in ancient times, to the equipment used in the hunting and gathering . The museum also describes the process of the landscape of the Late Pliocene to late Middle Pliestosen or about 2 million years ago.

Four Clusters

Head of Tourism and Culture of Central Java Prasetyo Aribowo states, since 1977 Sangiran site designated as a cultural heritage. In 1996, Sangiran listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site World Heritage (No. 593, WHC-96/Conf.201/21 document). "Sangiran hominid site is not only visited by many local tourists, but also from abroad," he said.According to him, Sangiran is divided into four thematic cluster visits, is 
- Cluster Ngebung (historical discoveries relating to the site)- Bukuran (human evolution)- Dayu (final results)- Krikilan (cluster equipped modern museum public facilities). 
Diorama become the main model Sangiran presentation that has a touch screen and short films, the exhibition contains a collection of information. It also features support facilities as a research institute, laboratory for preservation and conservation, and collection storage. 

A Brief History Regarding Sangiran

History or the history of research in Sangiran stems from reports GHR. Koenigswald who invented a tool flakes of rock material and chalcedony jaspis around the hill Ngebung in 1934 (Koenigswald, 1936). Findings tools flakes that became known by the term 'Sangiran Flakes-industry' is expected to come from the (series) Kabuh-old Upper Middle Pleistocene. However, the results pertanggalan heavily criticized by experts (de Terra, 1943; Heekeren, 1972) because the findings associated with the context is not autochton Fauna Sandpipers (Bartstra and Basoeki, 1984: 1989) or not from the primary deposition (Bemellen, 1949) .Research at the site has become more attractive and sustainable when in 1936 found fossil fragments of the lower jaw (mandible) hominid Homo erectus was followed by the findings of other fossils.After the post Koenigswald or in about the 1960's, research on hominid fossils and paleotologis on this site then taken over by researchers from Indonesia (including T. Jacob and S. Sartono) as well as ongoing until now. The research was 'spectacular' occurs when Puslit Arkenas conduct cooperative research withMuseum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), France through massive excavation for 5 phase (1989 - 1993) on the hill Ngebung produced a number of findings that are 'in situ' and absolute pertanggalan very interesting. Sangiran research is growing rapidly in the past decade five years after the albino Yogya participate directly and conduct research programs are intensive and integrated (Widianto 1997; Jatmiko 2001).If Von Koenigswald in 1934 did not set foot in Sangiran, the early human sites located in the region Sragen and Karanganyar it may never be known. For since the visit Koenigswald, Sangiran name appears in the realm of science as a site of discovery of stone tools.Long before Koenigswald come, Eugene Dubois, the discoverer of ancient human fossils Sandpipers, actually never came Sangiran, 1893. Unfortunately, when it was not interested in Sangiran Dubois, dry and barren. The young doctor had turned his research into Sandpipers, until finally in the village located on the banks of the Bengawan Solo in Madison this region,Dubois found the fossilized femur and ancient human skull. Later findings known as Pithecanthropus Erectus or Si Man Walking Upright.Sangiran started when Von Koenigswald find ancient stone tools in 1934. The findings were then followed by subsequent findings are as endless. Two years after the discovery that for example, a local resident found the lower jaw of early human fossils in layers Pucangan Top in Sangiran, following other fossils in the following years.

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