| Abstract: |
In the last decade new hominid fossils have been discovered in Indonesia, all of them from the Sangiran dome area in Central Java (Jacob, 1967a
TABLE 1). The site, located approximately 15 kilometres north of the town of Surakarta, has been widely known owing to the works of von Koenigswald in the 1930s and his important finds consisting of three skulls, three mandibles and isolated teeth. Some of the fossils were associated with the Trinil fauna of the Kabuh formation, and others with the Djetis fauna of the Putjangan formation (von Koenigswald, 1960). In 1952 a mandible was found in the Kabuh formation and in 1960 another one was found in the Putjangan formation. In 1963, 1965 and 1969 skull caps were discovered in the river gravels of Kabuh. And in 1963 and 1969 isolated teeth were found. Fragments of frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital bones were found in 1965 and 1970. In this paper, I should like to report on two other finds, namely fragments of a skull base and of a maxilla.
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