|
In
1934
the
anthropologist
Gustav
Heinrich
Ralph
von
Koenigswald
started
to
examine
the
area.
During
excavations
in
the
next
years
fossils
of
some
of
the
first
known
human
ancestors,
Pithecanthropus
erectus
("Java
Man",
now
reclassified
as
part
of
the
species
Homo
erectus),
were
found
here.
About
60
more
human
fossils,
among
them
the
enigmatic
"Meganthropus",
have
since
been
found
here.
In
addition,
there
are
considerable
numbers
of
remains
of
the
animals
that
these
primitive
humans
hunted,
and
of
others
that
merely
shared
the
habitat. |
