LAB EARTH
ONE DAY SEMINAR
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015
08:00 - 16:00 WIB
GEDUNG 10 KOMPLEK LIPI
JL. SANGKURIANG,
BANDUNG
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EVIDENCES OF LOST CULTURES
FROM THE LAST ICE AGE:
GUNUNG PADANG, INDONESIA
AND GOBEKLI TEPE, TURKEY
SPEAKERS:
1. Mr. ANDREW COLLINS
2. DR. DANNY H. NATAWIDJAJA
3. DR. JOHAN ARIEF
ONE‐DAY SEMINAR
24 March 2014, Gd.10 ‐ Kampus LIPI, Jl.Sangkuriang Bandung
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE SPEAKERS
8:00‐9:00 Registration and Morning Coffee
9:00 ‐ 9:05 OPENING
9:05 ‐ 9:30 Keynote Speaker 1
9:30 ‐ 10:00 Keynote Speaker 2
10:00 ‐ 10:50 Gobekli Tepe and The Greater Antiquity of Gunung Padang
Mr. Andrew Collins UK
10:50 ‐ 11:40 Gunung Padang, The Sundaland Pyramid: Review and Progress
Dr. Danny H. Natawidjaja TTRM/ LIPI
11:40 ‐ 12:30 Megalithic and Obsidian Cultures in Ancient Bandung Lake And Pawon‐ Cave Man
Dr. Johan Arief KRCB/ ITB
12:30 ‐ 13:30 ISOMA (Prayer and Lunch Break)
13:30 ‐ 15:30 PANEL DISCUSIONS
15:30 ‐ 15:45 Views From Indonesian Army (TNI)
15:45 ‐ 16:00 Closing Statements Moderator
Chief of Mariner (KASAL) Army General Ade Supandi
EVIDENCES OF LOST CULTURES FROM THE LAST ICE AGE: GUNUNG PADANG WEST JAVA AND GOBEKLI TEPE TURKEY
All Speakers, Moderator: Dr. Eko Yulianto, Dr. Imam Sadisun
Dr. Dipo Alam (Ex Cabinet and Ex General Secretary D8 in Turkey)
Mr. Dedy Mizwar (Vice Governor West Java)
Morning Season Moderator: Dr. Yuliana Susilowati (LIPI)
Seminar 24 March 2015, Gd.10‐LIPI Campus, Jl. Sangkuriang Bandung
Evidences
of
Lost
Cultures
From
the
Last
Ice
Age:
Comparational
studies
of
Göbekli
Tepe,Turkey
and
Gunung
Padang,
West
Java”;
What
can
we
learn?
Introduction
The Gunung Padang megalithic site on top of the mount has been known since 1800’s AD, then was begun to be studied since 1980; But not until the last four years it became the most famous archeological site in Indonesia that absorps public attentions. Before the site was visited by only dozens of people in a week, but now becomes thousands, which can compete with numbers of people who visit Borobudur Temple, the most famous and established Indonesian cultural icon. This drastic change happens after a group of researchers, called Tim Terpadu Riset Mandiri – TTRM (Integrated and Independent Research Team) started conducting geological and geophysical survey on the Mount Gunung Padang and then ‘leaking’ their findings to public. TTRM claims that the megalithic site is not as small and simple as thought before but it is much bigger, advanced and complex based on their subsurface geophysical images and geological core drillings, which revealed that most of the constructions are hidden and burried under thick vegetations and soils of the mount.
The case became hotter after radiocarbon‐dating analysis indicate that Gunung Padang megalithic constructions may have been built since Ice Age and have been rebuilt a couple time through the Holocene period. This against ordinary believes for decades that in the Ice Age human life was still primitive as hunter gatherers, do not have knowledge and agricultures and farming, therefore was not capable of building advance, large scale structures. This dogma is applied not just for Indonesia, where the known history started merely 400 AD, but world wide, since the oldest civilization known to the world emerged around 9000 BP in Mesopotamia. Hence, Gunung Padang case may become a breakthrough in human history and sciences that will change the way we look into the past.
Recognitions and appreciations from the government and general public are reflected from many visitors to Gunung Padang including from academic communities and top executives from central and provincial‐local governments and from Indonesian Army (TNI). President of Indonesia visited the site on 27 February 2014. Legal recognitions to support research and development for Gunung Padang are given by the Decree of Governor of West Java Province (Kepgub Jabar No. 430.05/Kep.1578‐Disparbud/2013 and 430.05/Kep.1579‐Disparbud/2013 and their revisions: Kepgub Jabar No. 430.05/Kep.302‐Disparbud/2014 and 430.05/Kep.303‐ Disparbud/2014); The Decree of Ministry of Education and Cultures (SK Preservations, Research, Utilizations and Management of Gunung Padang Site. It is clear that the Gunung Padang had became important national and world asset, so bringing about catastrophic events of this type? Did precision alignments towards key stars and the Milky Way's Great Rift enable instant access to the sky‐world for this express purpose?
Gunung
Padang,
The
Sundaland
Pyramid
By Danny Hilman Natawidjaja
Since 2011 geologist Dr Danny Hilman Natawidjaja and his team (“Tim Katastrofi Purba” and later became the “Tim Terpadu Riset Mandiri”) recognized Mount Gunung Padang as a possible man‐made structures and began to explore it using the latest technologies in geology‐geophysics including ground penetrating radar, seismic tomography, resistivity surveys along with extensive direct excavations and deep core drillings.
Megalithic
And
Obsidian
Culture
in
Ancient
Bandung
Lake
And
Pawon
‐
banana. Evidences of agriculture activities are obsidian artefacts. The source of obsidians are possible from Kendan Mountain, Cicalengka. From religious side, they seems to practice paganism, worshiping nature such as stones and sun. B.Sc, Universitas Indonesia (1978), Master of Engineering Management, The George Washington University, USA (1983), Professional Degree, Industrial and Engineering Management The George Washington University, USA (1984), Doctor of Science, The George Washington University, USA (1989).The speaker, Andrew Collins, is a journalist and historical writer living in the United Kingdom. He is the author of over a dozen books that challenge the way we perceive the past including From the Ashes of Angels (1996), Gateway to Atlantis (2000), The Cygnus Mystery (2006), and his latest work Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods (2014). He is currently working on the impact of hybridization between archaic human populations and anatomical modern humans on the emergence of civilization during the Upper Paleolithic age. He is one of the world's leading authorities on Göbekli Tepe.
the benefits of public. Recently, he is recognized as in Ranking Top Ten of Indonesian scientist, based on the Google scholar citation survey by Project ACUMEN of European Commission 7th Framework Programme, Capacities, Science in Society. In the past four years, he lead archeo geophysics and geological surveys at Gunung Padang megalithic site. He is scientific‐team leader of the Tim Katastrofi Purba and Tim Terpadu Riset mandiri (TTRM). He is also vice‐ chairmain of the Gunung Padang research commitee, formed by the decree of the West‐Java governor in December 2013, and vice chairmain (geology) of the national team of Gunung Padang, formed by the decree of the Ministry of Education and Cultures in August 2014. He is the author of the book “Plato Never Lies: Atlantis is in Indonesia”.
Speaker Johan Arief is a lecture at Dept. Geology, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), Institute Technology Bandung(ITB) since 1988. His S‐1 and S‐ 2 (Master) strata are from ITB, his Doctoral degree is from Kyoto University, Japan. From 2001 to 2004 he was a lecture at the Center of Archeological Research, Universitas Sain Malaysia. From 2006 to 2012, he took post‐doctoral programs in Japan, Germany, Holland, and US. His specialize in bio‐ anthropology and geoarcheology. Married to Munafiataun Muniroh, given four childs. At present he is active in applied geology research group in FST ITB and Faculty of Arts and Design ITB. He is also a core member ofBandung Basin Research Group (KRCB).