Prehistory

 

Replica of Java man skull was first discovered in Sangiran

   Geologically , the territory of modern Indonesia ( for easier, hereinafter referred to as the Archipelago ) is a meeting between the three main continental plates the Eurasian Plate , Indo-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate .Indonesian islands such as the present moment is formed during the melting of the ice after the end of the Ice Age, which is around ten thousand years ago .During the Pleistocene , when the archipelago was still connected to the Asian mainland , then enter the first settlers . The first evidence that indicates the earliest inhabitants were the fossils of Homo erectus of Java man until the past two million five hundred thousand years ago . The discovery of the remains " Flores man " or Homo floresiensis was called in Liang Bua , Flores , propping open the possibility of Homo . Homo until the final days of the Ice Age .Homo sapiens first entered the archipelago since the estimated one hundred thousand years ago over the course of the Asian shore of the path of West Asia , and in about sixty thousand to seventy thousand years ago had reached New Guinea and Australia . Those , who berfenotipe dark skin and curly hair tightly , becoming the ancestors of indigenous people of Melanesia ( including Papua therein ) now and bring culture hatchet shaped or so-called Paleolithic . Waves of Austronesian -speaking immigrants to the Neolithic cultures come in waves since three thousand years BC from southern China through Formosa and the Philippines to bring the culture of Dong Son culture which is square pickaxe . The migration process is part of the occupation of the Pacific . The arrival of the wave , characterized by a Mongoloid population tends toward the west , and urged residents to the east or the beginning of mating mix with the locals who made ​​the physical characteristics of Maluku and Nusa Tenggara residents . These immigrants brought positive ie farming techniques , including planting rice in paddy fields into evidence slowest since the 8th century BC , then raising buffalo , bronze and iron processing , weaving techniques , megalithic practices , and worship spirits or commonly called animism as well as sacred objects called dynamism . In the first century BC already formed settlements and small kingdoms , and so may have entered the effects of trust - kepercayang of India due to trade relations .