Travelling Solo really give satisfaction to you. In addition
to cultural tourism, batik solo, the Mangkunegara Palace, Solo also
has a place where you can learn about the history of early human civilization.
Sangiran Museum is the archaeological museum in with 13,809 ollection of fossils and relics of
the age of dinosaurs.
Sangiran Museum is Asia's most complete archaeological
museum. Most of the collection can be found at Asia's largest archaeological
museum include ancient human fossils Pithecantropus erectus, Pithecantropus
erectus, Pithecantropus mojokertensis, Meganthropus
paleojavanicus, Homo soloensis, Europe Homo neanderthal, Asia Homo
neanderthal , dan Homo sapiens.. There are also
fossils of ancient animals like Mastodon sp ancient elephant, tiger Felis
paleojavanica, Rhinocerus sondaicus rhinoceros, hippopotamus Hippopotamus sp.,
And a number of ancient man-made hunting supplies. Fossil collection is largely
derived from Sangiran, because the museum is also used as a place to hold
fossils of the largest archaeological sites in Indonesia.
Sangiran Museum is located in the village of Krikilan,
District Kalijambe, Sragen, Central Java, or 18 miles to the north of Solo. The
museum has an area of approximately
56 square kilometers.
Homo soloensis is ever settled in the area around the river
of Bengawan Solo 1.5 million years ago.
Archaeological research has not revealed all the secrets of this ancient
human cultures. Hominid species that lived much later, 800000-300000 years ago,
is known to have created the tools.
Man of Solo including
archaic Homo erectus (archaic: old-fashioned), lived between 1.5 million and 1
million years ago, is the oldest hominid ever discovered and experienced the
evolution in Indonesia. In Sangiran hominid evolution period extends for one
million years. There are two types of human evolution in situ, ie archaic Homo
erectus, 1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus and tipic, 300,000 years old.
Homo Soloensis fossils found in Ngandong, Blora, at Sangiran
and Tigers Connect, Sragen, by Ter Haar, Oppenoorth, and Von Koenigswald in
1931-1933 from Upper Pleistocene layers. Soloensis Homo, which lived about
900,000 to 300,000 years ago. Brain volume reached 1300 cc. Koenigswald is a
paleontologist and geologist Netherland origin who conducted research on
hominins, including Homo erectus
According to Von Koenigswald this human has higher level
than Pithecanthropus Erectus. Estimated that this creature is an evolution and
Pithecanthropus Mojokertensis. By some experts, classified as Homo Neanderthalensis
soloensis which is a type of Homo Sapiens from Asia, Europe, and Africa come
from the Upper Pleistocene.
Sangiran is one of the valuable sites of human evolution in
the world, although it is not the only one. It is rarely found elsewhere, both
in Indonesia and in the world. Only in Africa and China that shows the
evolution of this kind.
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