In 1894, Eugene Dubois, brushing sediment in Java, unexpectedly found Java Man that still shapes human origins debates

A 1894 discovery on Java's Solo River, initially dubbed Java Man, has reshaped our understanding of early human origins.
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Fate of buried Java Man revealed in unseen notes from Homo erectus dig

The first large excavation of ancient human remains in Indonesia, in the 1890s, were done with great care – according to an analysis of unpublished documents from the dig. The original excavations ...

In 1894, a Dutch anatomist brushed sediment from a riverbank in Java; it uncovered Java Man and reshaped the search for human origins

In the 1890s, Eugène Dubois conducted pivotal excavations in Java that unearthed Java Man, a groundbreaking fossil that ...
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Ancient humans were weirdly slow to cross from mainland Asia to Java

Ancient humans took hundreds of thousands of years to make the journey from mainland Eurasia to Indonesia, according to a new dating study, perhaps reaching Java half a million years later than we ...