Fossil Coral Carved Bees

These are wonderfully carved crystal bees. They are carved from fossil coral. Fossil Corals have been found in several provinces across the western Indonesian Islands of Sumatra and Java. These materials are the buried remnants of ancients reefs thrust up onto the land mass by plate collisions. They lie situated in the mountainous regions of the Bukit Barisan Range from central to southern Sumatra and the rugged mountains of western and eastern Java. In east Indonesia, there are fossil corals found on remote mountainous parts of Halmahera Island.