The locations of the discovery of archaeological sites are scattered in almost all parts of Indonesia.
Even Indonesia has an ancient human site that is considered the largest and most important in the world, namely the Sangiran site.
Sangiran is located at the foot of Mount Lawu, about 15 km from the Bengawan Solo River valley.
Researchers consider Sangiran as the center of a large, important, and complete civilization of ancient humans in the world because it provides clues about the existence of humans since 150,000 years ago.
This site stores a wealth of ancient fossils, ranging from fossils of ancient humans, ancient animals, to the results of prehistoric human culture. The Sangiran site itself is located in two regencies in Central Java Province, namely Sragen and Karanganyar Regencies, with an area of 59.21 square kilometers.
The Sangiran area has a characteristic shaped like a giant dome with a large basin in the center of the dome due to erosion events. Research at the Sangiran Site was first conducted in 1864 by P.E.C. Schemulling.
The fossils found by P.E.C Schemulling at the Sangiran Site are in the form of vertebrate fossils.
Eugene Dubois then also visited this place in 1895, but did not continue his research because he found nothing.
After a long time, Von Koenigswald managed to find various ancient human tools armed with a geological map made by L.J.C van Es in 1932.
Koenigswald invented a thousand simple tools of chalcedony that could be used to cut, slash, and sharpen wooden spears.
In 1936, local residents handed over the fossilized right jaw of an ancient human to Koenigswald.
This is the first discovery of ancient human fossils, which were later given the code S1 (Sangiran)
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