The Sangiran Dome (near Solo in central Java) is Indonesia’s richest area for fossil remains of Homo erectus.  More than 50 have been found in a landscape that’s over 1 million years old.

German scientist Ralph von Koenigswald was the first to report finds from the area in the 1930s, supporting the original discovery of an ancient human species by Dubois; ironically Dubois insisted von Koenigswald’s material was some other transitional form and the Trinil find was the true ‘missing link’.

Many of the skeletal remains have been found buried in volcanic deposits produced by the numerous volcanoes that surround the Dome. In addition to the human remains are many terrestrial and aquatic fossils which give a picture of what the environment was like when the sediments were laid down.