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Sangiran fossil beds

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Pleistocene lake and river beds famous for Homo erectus, exposed in eroding badlands north of Solo

UNESCO World Heritage hominid site with a long excavation record.

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