'Sangiran' is an
archaeological excavation site at the island of
Java in
Indonesia. The area comprises about 48 km² and is located in
Central Java, about 15 kilometers north of
Surakarta in the
Bengawan Solo River valley. 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"), were found here. About 60 more fossils, among them the enigmatic
Meganthropus, have since been found here.
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360° Panorama of Sangiran museum on World heritage tour
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