Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...

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Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans. Scattered across the newly created island, ...

View post: Black Midi Co-Founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin Dead at 26 Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast Asia ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For years, archeologists assumed the ancient Homo erectus population ...

A recent discovery stemming from a massive construction project reveals evidence of a previously unknown group of Homo erectus that lived off the coast of Java, Indonesia, 140,000 years ago. Skull ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus from the seabed. The discovery, described in four studies in the June Quaternary Environments ...