Ref ID:	31714
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Simanjuntak, Truman Sémah, François
Title:	A new insight into the Sangiran flake industry
Date:	1996
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Chiang Mai, Thailand 5 to 12 January 1994
Abstract:	The so-called Sangrian Flake Industry was discovered initially in the middle of the 1930's. Such tools are usually found in the gravel layer capping the Ngebung hills, in the northwestern part of the Sangiran dome. The flakes were at first thought to have been made by Javanese Homo erectus, but such a point of view has been strongly contested by scholars during the recent years because they are usually concentrated in the uppermost alluvial layers of the Sangiran stratigraphical series and their contemporaneity with Homo erectus is therefore doubtful. The recent discovery of several artefacts of the Sangiran Flake Industry type - flakes, blades and nuclei - within the excavations carried out in the Middle Pleistocene Kabuh layers at Ngebung gives evidence that at least part of this industry is contemporary with Homo erectus. The same layers have earlier yielded larger andesitic artifacts like bolas, cleavers, choppers and polyhedrons.
Date Created:	10/19/2003
Volume:	14
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