| Abstract: |
This paper presents the results of surveys of megaliths in Bondowoso, situated in East Java. megaliths were here first reported by Steinmetz (1898), followed by Van Heekeren (1931), before being excavated by Willems (1938) in the village of Pakauman in Bondowoso. During our 1995 and 1996 surveys in the Bondowoso area we found a large number of megaliths in numerous sites. They lie in the plane, on the slightly sloping foot of the volcanoes, and on the ranges of the hills. The megaliths consist of dolmens, sarcophagi, stone chamber graves, kenong stones (cylindrical stones), mortars, menhirs, monoliths, and statues. Different megalithic forms dominate in each site, producing ten groups of sites based on their composition.
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