Museum Manusia Purba Situs Gilimanuk (Museum Of Ancient Human)

           The museum is located at the westernmost tip of Bali Island, namely in the village of Gilimanuk, Jembrana, approximately 160 km. towards the west of the city of Denpasar, can be visited very easily. Actually the Museum of Ancient Man was built on the Archaeological Site on the Edge of the Gilimanuk Bay, which covers an area of ​​more than 20 ha, at an altitude of about 5 m. above sea level and has now become an unproductive dry field. The museum was built by the Jembrana Regency Government, in collaboration with the National Archaeological Research and Development Center, Jakarta and Denpasar Archeology Center, which was officially opened in 1990.

           The distance is quite close, only 2 kilometers from the Gilimanuk crossing port. If you walk, just about 20 minutes to arrive at the location. This ancient human museum stores objects found at the Gilimanuk site. This museum specifically saves the development of the ancient human life of Gilimanuk at the end of prehistoric civilization, which is a perundagian period around 195 BC (BC) to 425 AD. To study while traveling in this museum, visitors are not charged with purchasing tickets, aka free! But from the 5 hectare site, thousands of ancient collections are neatly stored. When visitors enter this museum, it seems to re-enter space time in the stone age era!

           A middle-aged man swiftly visited detikTravel when he came there, Thursday (11/26/2015). He was I Gede Bagus Ketut Ari Susila, an officer who was entrusted with the museum's coordinator. With the painstaking Gede Bagus explained one by one the collection objects that are in the Museum of Ancient Man. In this three-story building, there are 1,033 museum collections displayed. On the first floor, there are 9 fitrin (collection room) which are hundreds of stone tools, coffins and some chunks of the results of excavation. But what stands out the most is a cabinet displaying ancient human skeletons. On a white cloth, the human skeleton was arranged, but since it was discovered by residents in 1999 and until now there has been no specific explanation regarding the ancient human skeleton.

          "This ancient human skeleton was discovered accidentally by people in the Gilimanuk area here in 1999 when they were going to build a minimarket, excavated by the Denpasar Archaeological Center but until now it has not been identified," explained Gede Bagus.

           Do not stop there, a wooden staircase leads visitors to the second floor. In this room more focus on storing the tools of human civilization development in terms of livelihoods. Like a period of hunting and gathering simple food levels, advanced, farming and harvesting periods are stored separately in 6 pieces of fitrin. In addition to adult human skeletons on display on the ground floor, in this clean white painted room, the eyes of visitors return wide with a tiny frame in a bent leg.

           In a written statement, if this human skeleton is male, it is estimated that the age of 5 years with a height of no more than 100 cm. According to Gede Bagus, Gilimanuk humans are prehistoric human distribution from the Mongols, this is evidenced by laboratory results that show the Mongoloid race.

           "This frame when found in an exavation box is positioned in the legs and legs are bent and hands are folded in front of the abdomen like a baby in the womb," he explained.

            Satisfied exploring the museum collection on the second floor, visitors will be shown the supplies of the tomb of ancient human civilization Gilimanuk. On this third floor there are 4 fitrins that store equipment from bronze, iron, wood and beads. Some ancient objects on display are many whose condition has been broken and brittle. That is because the findings of the excavation are categorized as grave provisions because they are found close to ancient human skeletons.

"Like this bead, its use is to decorate itself, but when it dies, the beads are supplied to the deceased as a grave," he concluded.

Source: https://travel.detik.com/domestic-destination/d-3081579/ada-kerangka-manusia-purba-di-gilimanuk