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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