A team of archaeologists from Balai Arkeologi Yogyakarta / BAY discovered three ancient handheld hatchet or chopper in excavations near the village hall Terban, district Jekulo, in Kudus, Central Java, that enter the site Patiayam.
"Three choppers (cutters) include two types of bats and one cutter types. All three were found on Saturday (11/2/2012) in conjunction with the findings of the primeval bull shoulder blades," said the head of the BAY, Siswanto in Kudus, Central Java (13/2/2012).
He said, a hand-held axe or ancient bull shoulder blades is estimated to be approximately 750.000 years. Cutlery is made from limestone spark, while the beater type made from andesit stones.
These findings are increasingly adding to the richness of the site Patiayam. So far, based on the distribution of fossil findings, the team of archaeologists identified that the sites need to be kept up, reaching about 20 kilometres.
Inventions that are the result of research from Tuesday (7/2/2012) will be the academic basis to save the site from a wide array of activities that may be damaging, like C class mining.
Prior to this, the findings of archaeologists (handheld axe) has also been found fossils of ancient elephant Stegodon trigonochepalus Elephas sp as well as fossils and deer Cervus Ceruss zwaani and also fossil of buffalo bos lydekkeri bubalus palaeokarabau.
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