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of ancient human remains in Indonesia, in the 1890s, were done with great care – according to an analysis of unpublished documents from the dig.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

The return of the Dubois Collection from the Netherlands places Indonesia at the heart of human evolution studies, opening ...

The two most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to 1,000,000 ...

When it comes to the study of human evolution, the discovery of Java Man occupies a very special place. The fossil remains were discovered in the 1890s along the Solo River in the present-day East ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Indonesia, Marc Gerritsen, hands over a molar, a femur, and a skullcap of Homo erectus to Indonesian Minister of Culture Fadli ...