Paper Edition | Page: 21 Clean room: Cow, goat and deer skeletons are stored in the conservation room of the Sangiran museum. The area of Sangiran in Central Java would not have been known as a place where prehistoric humans lived without the discovery of fossils in 1934 by G. H. R. von Koenigswald, a German-Dutch paleontologist who contributed much to early hominid fossil research in Southeast Asia. While the discovery of the rich fossil site has made the region a site of great historical and scientific importance, its fruit has yet to benefit the people who have long lived on that land. “So far, around 80 individual prehistoric human fossils have been found — over 50 percent of all...
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