The original excavations revealed that Homo erectus on Java lived in a lush valley alongside a range of large animals, including antelope and elephants.

Homo erectus was first discovered in Java (and was known as “Java Man” until the species was officially renamed), but sossilized remains had never before been found on the seafloor between ...

Homo erectus was first discovered in Java (and was known as “Java Man” until the species was officially renamed), but sossilized remains had never before been found on the seafloor between ...

The struggle, delusion and arrogance of the character who found Java Man.

PROF. EUGENE DUBOIS, the discoverer of Pithecanthropus, has recently published1 an account of fossil remains of man found in a deposit in Java, which he regards as of Pleistocene age. In 1890, the ...

An Indonesian claim against a Dutch museum has pushed the debate about restitution into the realm of the natural history museum — where it hasn’t been much of an issue until now.