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 ...

A request by the Indonesian government for the return of artifacts not only includes art but also a number of fossils, including the Java man skull, Trouw reported on Tuesday. The list was sent to ...

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he foreign ministers of the Netherlands and Indonesia hailed the plan to return thousands of artifacts unearthed during the Dutch colonial era, including the remains of the Homo erectus known as “Java ...

A fossil skull of an ancient human (homo erectus) at the Indonesian exhibition, The Oldest Civilization on Earth 130 Years After Pithecanthropus Erectus, at the National Museum, Jakarta, December 20, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - After a long wait, the government of the Netherlands has finally returned theDubois collection, including the fossil of Homo erectus (formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus) to ...

JAKARTA – A skullcap, molar and femur believed to be remains of Homo erectus, or “Java Man,” unearthed by Dutch geologist Eugene Dubois in Java in the 19th century, are on display at the National ...