Sangiran
Dome of uplifted sediment in central Java that has yielded around sixty hominin fossils, more than almost anywhere on Earth. Its layered deposits let Homo erectus be tracked over hundreds of thousands of years in one place instead of in scattered single finds.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 1,000,000 years ago mainstream
fossil-bearing deposits, around a million years old source - 1996 CE mainstream
inscribed as a World Heritage site source
Where
7.4500° S, 110.8333° E
Sources
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