Archaeological Discoveries In Indonesia 19501980 Pusat Penelitian Dan Pengembangan Arkeologi Nasional by Pusat Penelitian Dan Pengembangan Arkeologi Nasional 9789798041457, 9798041453 instant download after payment.

Indonesia is an archipelago consisting of a thou sand odd islands, the largest being Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes, Sumatra and Java. It is inhabited by about 160 million inhabitants who altogether talk a lingua franca, Bahasa Indonesia, which is the National language. There are about 250 other languages and dialects.

Archaeological remains are found all over the country. The interest in archaeological remains started with the arrival of European travelers and. scholars in Indonesia, who often collect rare specimens of fauna, flora and objects of art. In later centuries articles, reports and

discriptions of monuments were written: by members of diplomatic missions and Dutch civil servants.

Recent archaeological Discoveries in Indonesia reflect the National. Research Centre of Archaeology's activities in the last thirty years (1950-1980). In the National Research Centre of Archaeology, archaeological studies are divided according to periods:

1. The Prehistoric period, from the time of the time of the Pithecanthropus erectus up to the 5th century the first written records appeared.

2. The period of the Hindu and Buddhist states: from the 5th century, Mulawarman in Kutei (Borneo) and Purnawarman of Tarumanegara in West Java, up to the last days of Majapahit at the end of the 15th century.

3. The period of the first Moslem states: from the 16th century up to the end of the 9th century. There are also monuments left by Eropean settlers which fall within this period.