Sangiran is an archaeological site. Geographically Sangiran site terlatak between Sragen and Karanganyar district in Central Java. This area of 15km2 memilikiluas 48 km2 north of Surakarta in the Solo River valley and is situated at the foot of the mountain Lawu.
History of Discovery and Recognition
In the anthropology of 1936-1941 a German scientist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswal dmulai do research on the Sangiran site . After the next penelitaian , found 50 more of which fossils Pithecanthropus erectus ( Java Man ) , palaeo Meganthropus javanicus . It also found fossils of animals such as rhino , buffalo horn , ivory , antler and others. Overall the estimated age of the fossils found were aged 1 to 1.5 million year old fossils and is also expected to have been buried sejak2 million years ago . Of 50 fossils discovered the fossils already represent 50 % of the world .
Before the emergence of Koenigswald , in the early 1930s , the people there only know that many fossils found in the natural environment around them as cockscomb buto aka giant bones . The German scientist has given a new understanding to the community related to the presence of Sangiran fossils and ancient artifacts .
In addition , their understanding related cockscomb buto also associated with oral traditions about war that never happened in the hills Sangiran , thousands of years ago . In a battle that many giants who died and are buried in the hills of Sangiran , as " evidenced " by the pieces of the bones which they named cockscomb buto . The village elders over the age of 60 years are still there who know the myth about the origin of the buto cockscomb . In fact, not a few among them who still believe in the truth .
Before the arrival of Koenigswald , cockscomb buto considered to have magical powers . In addition to functioning as a means of healing various diseases , or as a protective talisman , a magical value cockscomb buto also believed to help mothers give birth difficult . Because they were, not surprisingly, in the period before the 1930s , cockscomb butoyang many more popping up in various places on the banks of the river and on the slopes of the hills - are rarely hassled by the locals .
Koenigswald change that view . Sirus vastness Sangiran area , with natural conditions - arid and barren hills bebukit , does not allow foreign researchers working alone . In an effort to collect fossils , Koenigswald ask people for help .
In return for the involvement of residents , Koenigswald implement the wage system in the form of money to the people who found him . Wholesale gifts are quite varied , depending on the types of fossils and rarity . The community began to realize , was the first thing they called cockscomb buto have the exchange rate is quite promising.
After ituistilah cockscomb buto slowly evaporate replaced fossil as a new name , the sense and the value was successfully internalized by Koenigswald . Since then , people familiar with the concept of Sangiran new meanings related to the presence of fossil buto aka cockscomb , which was originally associated with belief as a myth which is worth a magical new kind of commodity that only economic value .
In 1977 Sangiran site declared by the Ministry of Education and Culture and padatahun 1996 listed in the world heritage site by UNESCO .
Still located in Sangiran wiliyah there Sangiran museum , the museum contained tu koleksi13.086 hominid collection and an ancient situsmanusia stood the most comprehensive in Asia . It also can be found vertebrate fossils , animal fossils water , rocks , fossils of marine plants and stone tools about 2 million years ago to 200,000 years ago , the end of the Pliocene epoch to the end of the middle Pleistocene .
Before the emergence of Koenigswald , in the early 1930s , the people there only know that many fossils found in the natural environment around them as cockscomb buto aka giant bones . The German scientist has given a new understanding to the community related to the presence of Sangiran fossils and ancient artifacts .
In addition , their understanding related cockscomb buto also associated with oral traditions about war that never happened in the hills Sangiran , thousands of years ago . In a battle that many giants who died and are buried in the hills of Sangiran , as " evidenced " by the pieces of the bones which they named cockscomb buto . The village elders over the age of 60 years are still there who know the myth about the origin of the buto cockscomb . In fact, not a few among them who still believe in the truth .
Before the arrival of Koenigswald , cockscomb buto considered to have magical powers . In addition to functioning as a means of healing various diseases , or as a protective talisman , a magical value cockscomb buto also believed to help mothers give birth difficult . Because they were, not surprisingly, in the period before the 1930s , cockscomb butoyang many more popping up in various places on the banks of the river and on the slopes of the hills - are rarely hassled by the locals .
Koenigswald change that view . Sirus vastness Sangiran area , with natural conditions - arid and barren hills bebukit , does not allow foreign researchers working alone . In an effort to collect fossils , Koenigswald ask people for help .
In return for the involvement of residents , Koenigswald implement the wage system in the form of money to the people who found him . Wholesale gifts are quite varied , depending on the types of fossils and rarity . The community began to realize , was the first thing they called cockscomb buto have the exchange rate is quite promising.
After ituistilah cockscomb buto slowly evaporate replaced fossil as a new name , the sense and the value was successfully internalized by Koenigswald . Since then , people familiar with the concept of Sangiran new meanings related to the presence of fossil buto aka cockscomb , which was originally associated with belief as a myth which is worth a magical new kind of commodity that only economic value .
In 1977 Sangiran site declared by the Ministry of Education and Culture and padatahun 1996 listed in the world heritage site by UNESCO .
Still located in Sangiran wiliyah there Sangiran museum , the museum contained tu koleksi13.086 hominid collection and an ancient situsmanusia stood the most comprehensive in Asia . It also can be found vertebrate fossils , animal fossils water , rocks , fossils of marine plants and stone tools about 2 million years ago to 200,000 years ago , the end of the Pliocene epoch to the end of the middle Pleistocene .
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Jawa » Jawa Tengah » Kab. Karanganyar
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