Sangiran Fossil

Sangiran Fossil Museum

Sangiran is an important site for the development of various fields of science, especially for research in the field of anthropology, archeology, biology, paleoanthropologi, geology, and of course to the field of tourism.

The existence of Sangiran Site is very useful to study prehistoric human life because of this site is equipped with ancient human fossils, the results of ancient human cultures, flora and fauna fossils and.

Sangiran  is passed by a very beautiful river, the Kali Cemoro which empties into the River Solo. This area is experiencing soil erosion so that the soil layer that is formed between the different apparent that a single soil layer with another layer of soil. In the layers of this soil, which until now were found the fossils of ancient humans and animals.

Until now, Archeological site of Sangiran still have a lot of mysteries that need to be revealed. A total of 50 (fifty) of individual humans Homo erectus fossils have been found. This amount represents 65% of Homo erectus fossils found in Indonesia, or about 50% of the population of Homo erectus in the world (Widianto: 1995, 1).

Overall fossils have been found so far are as many as 13,809 units. A total of 2934 fossils are stored in the Exhibition Hall Sangiran Museum and 10,875 other fossils are stored in the warehouse. Some ancient human fossils are stored in the Museum of Geology in Bandung and Yogyakarta Paleoanthropologi Laboratory. Viewed from its findings, the site of Sangiran prehistoric sites that have a very important role in understanding the process of human evolution and the archaeological sites of the most comprehensive in Asia and even in the world. Based on this, set Sangiran Site as World Heritage by the 593 number the World Heritage Committee at the time of commemorating the 20th year in Merida, Meksiko.