Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found - half of all the world's known hominid fossils. Inhabited for the past one and a half million years, ...

This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some 500,000 years ago ...

Usually stored separately at the Geological Museum in Bandung and the Sangiran Early Man Museum ... place in Sumatra and Java, as reported by Tempo. The height of Homo erectus was 165–180 ...