Museum Purbakala Sangiran - Sragen

Indonesia / Jawa Tengah / Colomandu /
 monument, UNESCO World Heritage Site, paleontological museum
Sangiran is an archaeological excavation site comprising about 48 km². In 1996 it was accepted as World Heritage by the UNESCO.

In 1934 the anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald started to examine the area. During excavations in the next years fossils of some of the first known human ancestors, Pithecanthropus erectus ("Java Man", now reclassified as part of the species Homo erectus), were found here. About 60 more human fossils, among them the enigmatic "Meganthropus", have since been found here. In addition, there are considerable numbers of remains of the animals that these primitive humans hunted, and of others that merely shared the habitat.
Sangiran is one of the key sites for the understanding of human evolution.

Sangiran Video :
You Tube Video :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=urzTCPISeKo&feature=channel_pag...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYMzleGpFUQ&feature=channel_pag...

Google Earth - Panoramio Photo's :
www.panoramio.com/photo/9832437
www.panoramio.com/photo/9832636
www.panoramio.com/photo/9832759
www.panoramio.com/photo/9832679
www.panoramio.com/photo/9832129


Google Earth Community :


Flickr Photo's :
www.flickr.com/photos/27390021@N03/2753761932/
www.flickr.com/photos/27390021@N03/2753788992/
www.peterbrown-palaeoanthropology.net/Sangiran.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangiran
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   7°27'20"S   110°50'3"E

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  • Warisan budaya dunia dari UNESCO.
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