At the foot of Mount Sindoro, blistering sun stung. Yanto body soaked in sweat (32), miners and farmers in the hamlet Liyangan, Purbosari Village, Waterford, Central Java. However, he did not retroactively oust the large stone embedded in the steep walls closely with the crowbar. "We want melandaikan this steep wall. After that, our Uruk with fertile soil to the surface again and can be planted," said Yanto while continuing to stick a crowbar.
For years, residents Liyangan Yanto and other rock mining in the remote mountain slopes. They do not think, behind the sand and stone were stored traces of past civilizations. Until 2008, excavators found a stone yoni sand, Ganesha statues, mortar, stone pipisan, and a long round stones used to grind herbs.Ceramic bowl shards were also found. Most of the ancient civilization's relics are kept at home Liyangan Riyatno Wardoyo Village Chief (43), including the broken ceramic bowl. Lying in the back room Riyatno metal molding tools made of clay, too small a decorative urn is still very rough.
Riyatno several attempts to combine the shards of pottery, but always failed. Until that afternoon, December 23, 2011, Niken Wirasanti, archaeologists from the University of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, exclaimed happily as it successfully combines shards of pottery into a bowl of the piece. "Ceramics from China may be the clue has no connection with the outside world since about the 8th century AD," said Niken. While the findings of an ancient urn that somplak in the mouth it, Niken believes that today's society has made their own pottery. Jars were made by people Liyangan. Manufacturing techniques are still rough.
At home there are also several statues Riyatno half-finished.Making sculpture is not passed because there was an error so that the chisel should be a hand or a broken head. A headless statue is expected to be made into a statue of Ganesha to see a potbellied posture, sitting position, and the trunk is broken. There is also a statue whose head was broken half that expected to be made into a statue of Durga. Niken rate, a very simple decorative patterns and techniques of making a rough sculpture show Liyangan civilization is still very early. A simple decorative pattern on the temple stones in Liyangan more similar to the Dieng temple which was built around the 7th century, older than the temples on the southern slope of Mount Merapi is complicated and delicate decorative carvings.
Agrarian
Traces of agrarian life in Liyangan recorded in the burned rice grains and found hot clouds of Yogyakarta Archaeological Center during excavation. Grains of rice that becomes coke eruption that buried material Sindoro 6-8 meters thick. Remove the hot cloud of ancient Liyangan recording time for 1037 years until it was rediscovered in 2008. The sand miners unload "grave" and the village at the time of the ancient Mataram is revealed.
Archaeologists from the Archaeological Institute of Yogyakarta, Sugeng Riyanto, said that since the report's findings, Yogyakarta Archaeological Center began researching the area in 2000 and continued in 2009 and 2010. "In 2000, we find a similar stone construction Talut and some components of the stone temples or statues at an altitude of 1100-1200 meters above sea level," said Sugeng. Excavations revealed a settlement of the Ancient Mataram. Besides the temple, also found ex-bamboo walls and pillars of the house that has become charcoal. By examining the age of bamboo that has been turned into charcoal, Yogyakarta Archaeological Center concluded, the destruction of civilization by the eruption of Mount Sindoro very terrible happened around the year 971 AD.
Memory is lost
Liyangan not the only trace of civilization Mataram volcanic eruptions buried and later found by accident. The impact of volcanic eruptions recorded during a search on the southern slope of Mount Merapi. Dozens of temples built on the slopes of Merapi around the 9th century buried by pyroclastic and lava flood.
Live surrounded by volcanoes and make life on Earth Mataram civilization in the past influenced volcanic eruptions. Ancient Mataram Kingdom Centre is expected to move from Dieng, then to Manila, up to around Prambanan, before then suddenly disappeared and moved to East Java. Many believe this move because of the impact of volcanic eruptions, in addition to earthquakes and political upheaval.
Traces of past life buried volcanic material is usually forgotten until discovered by chance by people who are working on the land, build houses, or mine sand. Communities that inhabit the area Liyangan, for example, would not have thought under the pile of sand at the edge of the village they had no solid settlement in the past which was then destroyed by the eruption of Mount Sindoro.
Geologists from the University of National Development Veteran, Yogyakarta, Helmy Murwanto, said the findings should also be the site Liyangan reminder about the trail of disaster caused by the eruption Sindoro in the past. Finally, Mount Sindoro erupted in 1910 so that people likely do not have the memory of this horrifying eruption. In fact, an active volcano that has been silent for a long time this has ever deadly trail. Civilization that is now a lot of standing on the disaster site in the past.
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