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Jun 13, 2021, 6 tweets

13 Juni 1932, the discovery of Ngandong Skull VI (now known as Ng 7). Panudju recognized the skull as hominin, stopped the excavation and carefully covered it with sand and marked the place with leaves, giving ter Haar and von Koenigswald the chance to witness it in situ

"Ter Haar began to dig carefully with his hands, while I took photographs. Unfortunately, I was so excited that most of the shots were under-exposed... the cranium itself was still embedded in the gravel." von Koenigswald, in Meeting Prehistoric Man (1956)

It was the first excavation of a human skull at which von Koenigswald had personally assisted, and turned out to be almost complete of the calvariae. He photographed Ngandong VI in place on 19 June 1932, surrounded by 17 non-hominin specimens

Direct radioisotopic (gamma-ray spectrometric) dating of Ngandong VI in 2008 led to age estimates between ~47000 and 78000 years old.

Recent dating close to Ngandong IV discovery point (L10c) produced age estimates between 60000 and 100000 years old

After the discovery of Ngandong V and VI, Oppenoorth changed his mind about the place of Homo soloensis (1937), dropped the not-well-chosen name Javanthropus, and proposed 'we
have in Homo soloensis the oldest at present known representative of Homo sapiens fossilis'.

Sorry, I meant Ngandong VI discovery point (L10c)

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