Contributions to the study of the palaeolithic Patjitan culture, Java, Indonesia

On October 4, 1935, Palaeolithic stone implements were found by W. M. F. Tweedie and G. H. R. von Koenigswald in the dry couÍse of the small River Baksoko which flows towards the south coast of Java. Tweedie was curator in the Raffies Museum in Singapore, while Von Koenigswald was palaeontologist with the Dienst van den Mijnbouw at Bandung. At that time these two scientists weÍe travelling around in the Gunung Sewu (literally; thousand mountains) in East Java, following the instructions of the prehistorian Van Stein Callenfels to collect Neolithic artifacts (adzes and arrow-heads) for the Rafles Museum. Alteady at that time the Gunung Sewu had a cettain Íenown for its wealth of Neolithic stone tools. ... Zie: Foreword