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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 ...
The original excavations revealed that Homo erectus on Java lived in a lush valley alongside a range of large animals, including antelope and elephants.
Where and when did they live? Homo erectus was first discovered in Java, Indonesia and then China – these are the famous "Java Man" and "Peking Man" fossils.
In later years “Java Man” would become more popularly represented by sculpted busts of our prehistoric relative, but one of the earliest full restorations was presented in 1900 at the Paris ...
Wadjak man is represented by two skulls discovered in the terraces of a dried-up fresh-water lake near the southern coast of Java, one in 1889 and the second by Prof. Dubois himself in the ...