NDLI: Rediscovery of the Late Pleistocene Punung hominin sites and the discovery of a new site Gunung Dawung in East Java

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Author	Storm, Paul Vos, John
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	In the 1930svon Koenigswald collected a fauna from two Pleistocene deposits, close to the village of Punung, East Java, in which hominin remains were found in association with mammals which clearly indicate the presence of a tropical rainforest, like orang-utans (Pongo) and gibbons (Hylobates). Although the Punung fauna is of scientific importance for understanding the distribution and evolution of mammals, including hominins, in Australasia, the location of the deposits was unknown. In the late 1990sBosscha Erdbrink, who was present during the excavations in the 1930s, released photographs made by him and he expressed his willingness to help locate the original sites. In 2003 a joint Dutch-Indonesian team of Naturalis at Leiden and the Geological Museum at Bandung visited the region of Punung and rediscovered the two original Punung sites. In addition, we found and documented fossilsin situ stemming from a tropical rainforest at a new site, Gunung Dawung.
Starting Page	271
Ending Page	281
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00372110
Journal	Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
Volume Number	86
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18671608
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2006-12-01
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Late Pleistocene fossil fauna tropical rainforest von Koenigswald porcupine bone collection biostratigraphy Java Homo sapiens Paleontology Biodiversity Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/ Biogeography Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Freshwater & Marine Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Paleontology

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