Sangiran

Sangiran is an archaeological site in Java, Indonesia. This area has an area of 48 km ² and is located in Central Java, 15 kilometers north of Surakarta in Solo River valley and is situated at the foot of Mount Lawu. Sangiran administratively located in Sragen regency and district of Karanganyar in Central Java. Sangiran in 1977 appointed by the Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia as a cultural heritage. In 1996 the site was listed in UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In 1934 anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald begin research in the area. In subsequent years, the results of excavations discovered the remains of the first human ancestor, Pithecanthropus erectus ("Java Man"). There are about 60 more fossils of other fossil Meganthropus palaeojavanicus them have been found at these sites.
Sangiran Museum, located in this region too, described the history of Homo erectus from about 2 million years ago until 200,000 years ago, namely from the late Pliocene age to late middle Pleistocene. In this museum there are 13 086 collection of hominid fossils and an upright hominid site the most comprehensive in Asia. It also can be found in vertebrate fossils, animal fossils of water, rocks, fossils of sea plants and stone tools.
Initially the research Sangiran is a dome called Sangiran Dome. Summit dome is then opened through a process of erosion to form a depression. In the depression that can be found in soil layers that contain information about life in the past.