officials forbade access to the cave and thus no other excavations in the place were possible. The BBC expressed the opinion that the reason for the restriction was to protect Jacob from being proven wrong. Scientists were allowed to return to the cave in 2007, the same year that Jacob died from liver disease. References 1929 births 2007 deaths Acehnese people People from Peureulak People from Yogyakarta Paleoanthropologists Indonesian anthropologists Indonesian scientists Utrecht University alumni Gadjah Mada University alumni Academic staff of Gadjah Mada University Members of the People's Consultative Assembly Deaths from liver disease 20th-century anthropologists