Iwan Kurniawan

Biographic Data

ID	137898
NAME	Iwan Kurniawan
GIVEN NAMES	Iwan
FAMILY NAME	Kurniawan
SIGNATURE	KURNIAWAN I
AFFILIATIONS	Diponegoro University
ORCID	0000-0002-7816-7471
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	21
TOTAL CITATIONS	166
AUTHOR COUNT	21
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	6

The taphonomy of the Madura Strait fossil assemblage, a record of selective hunting and marrow processing by late Middle Pleistocene Sundaland hominins
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Thijs Van Kolfschoten et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025
The Madura Strait assemblage is the first vertebrate faunal record of submerged Sundaland. The material derives from an ancient valley of the Solo River, which was cut during the lowstand of MIS6. The geological background of the site and the taxonomy of the fossils have been described in previous publications. However, the significance of the assemblage within the Pleistocene biogeography of Southeast Asia can only be understood if we have insig…
Insular Mid-Pleistocene Giant Rats from the So’a Basin (Flores, Indonesia)
Open AccessSusan Hayes, Gerrit D Van Den Bergh et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2025
Excavations undertaken at Mata Menge, the securely dated Middle Pleistocene open site on the Indonesian island of Flores, have resulted in the recovery of over 670 well-preserved fossil murine molars from two distinct stratigraphic intervals. This research is the first systematic metric and morphological analysis of this material, with the results indicating the predominance of a single murine species, though the finds from the lower interval (0.…
First vertebrate faunal record from submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Gerrit D Van Den Bergh et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 1References: 19
The Sunda Shelf currently holds the world’s largest shelf sea. During Pleistocene sea-level lowstands the area emerged, forming a vast landmass called Sundaland. Intermittently exposed Sundaland played an important role in the regional vertebrate biogeography and evolution of species including Homo erectus and, in the Late Pleistocene, Homo sapiens . So far, our models of the Pleistocene biogeography of Sundaland were based on the distribution of…
The late Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus of the Madura Strait, first hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Yousuke Kaifu et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 4References: 35
Eastern Asia yielded a rich fossil record of Pleistocene hominins, ranging from Homo erectus and the diminutive island species Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis , to post- erectus grade late archaic Homo (including Denisovans), and finally to anatomically modern humans. The Sunda Shelf played an important role in the dispersal and evolution of hominin populations. The shelf has been widely exposed during most of the Pleistocene, forming a lan…
A late Middle Pleistocene lowstand valley of the Solo River on the Madura Strait seabed, geology and age of the first hominin locality of submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, A Veldkamp et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 3References: 14
The island of Java (Indonesia) is renowned for its Pleistocene hominin-bearing vertebrate fossil site s . Recently, a marine sand extraction work in the Madura Strait, off the coast of Surabaya, hit upon vertebrate-rich sandstones. More than 6000 vertebrate fossils have been retrieved from the dredged sand, amongst which are two skull fragments ascribed to Homo erectus . The fossils form the first vertebrate record from submerged Sundaland, the l…
Modern human teeth unearthed from below the ∼128,000-year-old level at Punung, Java
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2022Cited by: 5References: 47
La variabilité des homininés en Asie du sud-est insulaire au cours du Pléistocène
Open AccessSofwan Noerwidi, Amélie Vialet et al.ARTICLECahiers du Centre de recherches…2021
Les îles de la partie ouest de l’archipel indonésien constituent un territoire clé bien connu pour la paléoanthropologie. Pendant le Quaternaire, il a été affecté par les changements du climat et du niveau marin, ce qui a eu un impact sur les hominines se retrouvant parfois isolés au cours du Pléistocène. Le but de cette étude est de caractériser la variabilité de ces groupes humains occupant la région du plateau de la Sonde à partir des collecti…
Exploring the diversity of fossil hominin dental patterns in the western Indonesian archipelago during the Quaternary by Geometric Morphometric Analysis. Application on second upper and lower molars
Open AccessSofwan Noerwidi, Amélie Vialet et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2020Cited by: 4References: 33
Homo floresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores
Open AccessGerrit D Van Den Bergh, Yousuke Kaifu et al.ARTICLENature2016
Homo erectus calvaria from Ngawi (Java) and its evolutionary implications
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Science2015Cited by: 11References: 28
Ngawi 1 is an undated but well-preserved Homo erectus calvaria from Java. Previous craniometric and morphological studies have shown its similarities to late Javanese H. erectus from Ngandong as well as Sambungmacan (Sm 1 [and Sm 3]). Some researchers emphasize their morphological homogeneity, and suggest that this 'Ngandong/Sambungmacan/Ngawi group' is morphologically distinct from H. erectus from the Early Pleistocene of Sangiran and Trinil, po…
Cranial Morphology and Variation of the Earliest Indonesian Hominids
Yousuke Kaifu, Etty Indriati et al.CHAPTERAsian Paleoanthropology2011
New reconstruction and morphological description of a Homo erectus cranium
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Yahdi Zaim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2011Cited by: 18References: 62
Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by one million years ago
Open AccessAdam Brumm, Gitte M Jensen et al.ARTICLENature2010
Posterior deformational plagiocephaly properly explains the cranial asymmetries in LB1
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Tsuyoshi Kaneko et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2010Cited by: 5References: 7
Stone technology at the Middle Pleistocene site of Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia
Open AccessAdam Brumm, Mark W Moore et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2009Cited by: 31References: 36
Brief communication
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Hisao Baba et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2009Cited by: 10References: 37
If the holotype of Homo floresiensis , LB1, suffered from a severe developmental pathology, this could undermine its status as the holotype of a new species. One of the proposed pathological indicators that still remains untested is asymmetric distortion in the skull of LB1 (Jacob et al.: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 (2006) 13421–13426). Here, we present evidence that LB1 exhibits antemortem craniofacial deformities that are consistent with posteri…
Cranial morphology of Javanese Homo erectus
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, F Aziz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2008Cited by: 54References: 38
Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis
Open AccessAdam Brumm, Fachroel Aziz et al.ARTICLENature2006
Fire, Livelihoods, and Environmental Change in the Middle Mahakam Peatlands, East Kalimantan
Open AccessUnna Chokkalingam, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2005Cited by: 5
Chokkalingam, U., I. Kurniawan, and Y. Ruchiat 2005. Fire, livelihoods, and environmental change in the Middle Mahakam peatlands, East Kalimantan. Ecology and Society 10(1): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01320-100126
Fire, People and Pixels
Open AccessRona A Dennis, Rona Dennis et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2005Cited by: 15References: 25
The Role of Fire in Changing Land Use and Livelihoods in Riau-Sumatra
Open AccessSuyanto, S Suyanto et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2004
Suyanto, S., G. Applegate, R. Permana, N. Khususiyah and I. Kurniawan 2004. The role of fire in changing land use and livelihoods in riau-sumatra. Ecology and Society 9(1): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00632-090115

Cranial morphology of Javanese Homo erectus
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, F Aziz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2008Cited by: 54References: 38
Stone technology at the Middle Pleistocene site of Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia
Open AccessAdam Brumm, Mark W Moore et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2009Cited by: 31References: 36
New reconstruction and morphological description of a Homo erectus cranium
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Yahdi Zaim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2011Cited by: 18References: 62
Fire, People and Pixels
Open AccessRona A Dennis, Rona Dennis et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2005Cited by: 15References: 25
Homo erectus calvaria from Ngawi (Java) and its evolutionary implications
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Science2015Cited by: 11References: 28
Ngawi 1 is an undated but well-preserved Homo erectus calvaria from Java. Previous craniometric and morphological studies have shown its similarities to late Javanese H. erectus from Ngandong as well as Sambungmacan (Sm 1 [and Sm 3]). Some researchers emphasize their morphological homogeneity, and suggest that this 'Ngandong/Sambungmacan/Ngawi group' is morphologically distinct from H. erectus from the Early Pleistocene of Sangiran and Trinil, po…
Brief communication
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Hisao Baba et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2009Cited by: 10References: 37
If the holotype of Homo floresiensis , LB1, suffered from a severe developmental pathology, this could undermine its status as the holotype of a new species. One of the proposed pathological indicators that still remains untested is asymmetric distortion in the skull of LB1 (Jacob et al.: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 (2006) 13421–13426). Here, we present evidence that LB1 exhibits antemortem craniofacial deformities that are consistent with posteri…
Modern human teeth unearthed from below the ∼128,000-year-old level at Punung, Java
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2022Cited by: 5References: 47
Posterior deformational plagiocephaly properly explains the cranial asymmetries in LB1
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Tsuyoshi Kaneko et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2010Cited by: 5References: 7
Fire, Livelihoods, and Environmental Change in the Middle Mahakam Peatlands, East Kalimantan
Open AccessUnna Chokkalingam, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2005Cited by: 5
Chokkalingam, U., I. Kurniawan, and Y. Ruchiat 2005. Fire, livelihoods, and environmental change in the Middle Mahakam peatlands, East Kalimantan. Ecology and Society 10(1): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01320-100126
The late Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus of the Madura Strait, first hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Yousuke Kaifu et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 4References: 35
Eastern Asia yielded a rich fossil record of Pleistocene hominins, ranging from Homo erectus and the diminutive island species Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis , to post- erectus grade late archaic Homo (including Denisovans), and finally to anatomically modern humans. The Sunda Shelf played an important role in the dispersal and evolution of hominin populations. The shelf has been widely exposed during most of the Pleistocene, forming a lan…
Exploring the diversity of fossil hominin dental patterns in the western Indonesian archipelago during the Quaternary by Geometric Morphometric Analysis. Application on second upper and lower molars
Open AccessSofwan Noerwidi, Amélie Vialet et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2020Cited by: 4References: 33
A late Middle Pleistocene lowstand valley of the Solo River on the Madura Strait seabed, geology and age of the first hominin locality of submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, A Veldkamp et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 3References: 14
The island of Java (Indonesia) is renowned for its Pleistocene hominin-bearing vertebrate fossil site s . Recently, a marine sand extraction work in the Madura Strait, off the coast of Surabaya, hit upon vertebrate-rich sandstones. More than 6000 vertebrate fossils have been retrieved from the dredged sand, amongst which are two skull fragments ascribed to Homo erectus . The fossils form the first vertebrate record from submerged Sundaland, the l…
First vertebrate faunal record from submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Gerrit D Van Den Bergh et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 1References: 19
The Sunda Shelf currently holds the world’s largest shelf sea. During Pleistocene sea-level lowstands the area emerged, forming a vast landmass called Sundaland. Intermittently exposed Sundaland played an important role in the regional vertebrate biogeography and evolution of species including Homo erectus and, in the Late Pleistocene, Homo sapiens . So far, our models of the Pleistocene biogeography of Sundaland were based on the distribution of…

The Role of Fire in Changing Land Use and Livelihoods in Riau-Sumatra
Open AccessSuyanto, S Suyanto et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2004
Suyanto, S., G. Applegate, R. Permana, N. Khususiyah and I. Kurniawan 2004. The role of fire in changing land use and livelihoods in riau-sumatra. Ecology and Society 9(1): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00632-090115
Fire, Livelihoods, and Environmental Change in the Middle Mahakam Peatlands, East Kalimantan
Open AccessUnna Chokkalingam, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2005Cited by: 5
Chokkalingam, U., I. Kurniawan, and Y. Ruchiat 2005. Fire, livelihoods, and environmental change in the Middle Mahakam peatlands, East Kalimantan. Ecology and Society 10(1): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01320-100126
Fire, People and Pixels
Open AccessRona A Dennis, Rona Dennis et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2005Cited by: 15References: 25
Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis
Open AccessAdam Brumm, Fachroel Aziz et al.ARTICLENature2006
Cranial morphology of Javanese Homo erectus
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, F Aziz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2008Cited by: 54References: 38
Stone technology at the Middle Pleistocene site of Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia
Open AccessAdam Brumm, Mark W Moore et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2009Cited by: 31References: 36
Brief communication
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Hisao Baba et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2009Cited by: 10References: 37
If the holotype of Homo floresiensis , LB1, suffered from a severe developmental pathology, this could undermine its status as the holotype of a new species. One of the proposed pathological indicators that still remains untested is asymmetric distortion in the skull of LB1 (Jacob et al.: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 (2006) 13421–13426). Here, we present evidence that LB1 exhibits antemortem craniofacial deformities that are consistent with posteri…
Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by one million years ago
Open AccessAdam Brumm, Gitte M Jensen et al.ARTICLENature2010
Posterior deformational plagiocephaly properly explains the cranial asymmetries in LB1
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Tsuyoshi Kaneko et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2010Cited by: 5References: 7
Cranial Morphology and Variation of the Earliest Indonesian Hominids
Yousuke Kaifu, Etty Indriati et al.CHAPTERAsian Paleoanthropology2011
New reconstruction and morphological description of a Homo erectus cranium
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Yahdi Zaim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2011Cited by: 18References: 62
Homo erectus calvaria from Ngawi (Java) and its evolutionary implications
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Science2015Cited by: 11References: 28
Ngawi 1 is an undated but well-preserved Homo erectus calvaria from Java. Previous craniometric and morphological studies have shown its similarities to late Javanese H. erectus from Ngandong as well as Sambungmacan (Sm 1 [and Sm 3]). Some researchers emphasize their morphological homogeneity, and suggest that this 'Ngandong/Sambungmacan/Ngawi group' is morphologically distinct from H. erectus from the Early Pleistocene of Sangiran and Trinil, po…
Homo floresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores
Open AccessGerrit D Van Den Bergh, Yousuke Kaifu et al.ARTICLENature2016
Exploring the diversity of fossil hominin dental patterns in the western Indonesian archipelago during the Quaternary by Geometric Morphometric Analysis. Application on second upper and lower molars
Open AccessSofwan Noerwidi, Amélie Vialet et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2020Cited by: 4References: 33
La variabilité des homininés en Asie du sud-est insulaire au cours du Pléistocène
Open AccessSofwan Noerwidi, Amélie Vialet et al.ARTICLECahiers du Centre de recherches…2021
Les îles de la partie ouest de l’archipel indonésien constituent un territoire clé bien connu pour la paléoanthropologie. Pendant le Quaternaire, il a été affecté par les changements du climat et du niveau marin, ce qui a eu un impact sur les hominines se retrouvant parfois isolés au cours du Pléistocène. Le but de cette étude est de caractériser la variabilité de ces groupes humains occupant la région du plateau de la Sonde à partir des collecti…
Modern human teeth unearthed from below the ∼128,000-year-old level at Punung, Java
Open AccessYousuke Kaifu, Iwan Kurniawan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2022Cited by: 5References: 47
The taphonomy of the Madura Strait fossil assemblage, a record of selective hunting and marrow processing by late Middle Pleistocene Sundaland hominins
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Thijs Van Kolfschoten et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025
The Madura Strait assemblage is the first vertebrate faunal record of submerged Sundaland. The material derives from an ancient valley of the Solo River, which was cut during the lowstand of MIS6. The geological background of the site and the taxonomy of the fossils have been described in previous publications. However, the significance of the assemblage within the Pleistocene biogeography of Southeast Asia can only be understood if we have insig…
Insular Mid-Pleistocene Giant Rats from the So’a Basin (Flores, Indonesia)
Open AccessSusan Hayes, Gerrit D Van Den Bergh et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2025
Excavations undertaken at Mata Menge, the securely dated Middle Pleistocene open site on the Indonesian island of Flores, have resulted in the recovery of over 670 well-preserved fossil murine molars from two distinct stratigraphic intervals. This research is the first systematic metric and morphological analysis of this material, with the results indicating the predominance of a single murine species, though the finds from the lower interval (0.…
First vertebrate faunal record from submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Gerrit D Van Den Bergh et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 1References: 19
The Sunda Shelf currently holds the world’s largest shelf sea. During Pleistocene sea-level lowstands the area emerged, forming a vast landmass called Sundaland. Intermittently exposed Sundaland played an important role in the regional vertebrate biogeography and evolution of species including Homo erectus and, in the Late Pleistocene, Homo sapiens . So far, our models of the Pleistocene biogeography of Sundaland were based on the distribution of…
The late Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus of the Madura Strait, first hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, Yousuke Kaifu et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 4References: 35
Eastern Asia yielded a rich fossil record of Pleistocene hominins, ranging from Homo erectus and the diminutive island species Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis , to post- erectus grade late archaic Homo (including Denisovans), and finally to anatomically modern humans. The Sunda Shelf played an important role in the dispersal and evolution of hominin populations. The shelf has been widely exposed during most of the Pleistocene, forming a lan…
A late Middle Pleistocene lowstand valley of the Solo River on the Madura Strait seabed, geology and age of the first hominin locality of submerged Sundaland
Open AccessH W K Berghuis, A Veldkamp et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025Cited by: 3References: 14
The island of Java (Indonesia) is renowned for its Pleistocene hominin-bearing vertebrate fossil site s . Recently, a marine sand extraction work in the Madura Strait, off the coast of Surabaya, hit upon vertebrate-rich sandstones. More than 6000 vertebrate fossils have been retrieved from the dredged sand, amongst which are two skull fragments ascribed to Homo erectus . The fossils form the first vertebrate record from submerged Sundaland, the l…