Pasir Angin site is located in the western part of Java Island kept many artifacts comingfrom metal materials bronze. Bronze at the site was found in context as a means or equipmentworship ancestral spirits. The context also shows that Bronze at the time it was considered aluxury item, and community allegedly Pasir Angin was first exposed to goods of metal materialsthat are the result of high technology. On this site can not be found the remains of bronzeproduction, so it alleged that no local production of bronze artifacts, but to come from surplusareas such objects and how spreading. Through metallographic analysis showed that bronzeobjects Pasir Angin site making techniques have similarities with the Dong Son bronze objects. Inaddition, there were traces of shipping and commercial activities that have ever taken placebetween the Chinese in this case with Indonesia Dong Son bronze objects strengthens the caseoriginated from the region. Thus the site became Pasir Angin setrategis region that gave birth toearly civilizations utilization of high technology. The findings of bronze objects on this sitestrengthens the case that Java has entered International network since the perundagian. |