The original excavations revealed that Homo erectus on Java lived in a lush valley alongside a range of large animals, including antelope and elephants.

Homo erectus fossils discovered on the island of Java come from a population that died between 117,000 and 108,000 years ago, researchers found. It's the last known appearance of Homo erectus in ...

The first fossil was found at another site named Trinil in 1891. Around 200 have been found across Java since then. The oldest Homo erectus fossils on Java date to 1.7 million years ago.

Homo erectus is the longest lived hominin species, having first appeared in Africa around two million years ago. The species migrated into Asia before ending up on the Indonesian island of Java.

Homo floresiensis, another kind of early human, is likely a dwarf of the H. erectus that island-hopped in Southeast Asia, and Homo luzonensis could also have been a spin-off species, Ciochon says.

The oldest human remains in Southeast Asia aren't as old as we thought they were. An Indonesian-Japanese team of scientists has overturned a decades-old estimate of Homo erectus remains from Central ...

Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle, behavior, and the wild Pleistocene world they navigated.

"Homo erectus could disperse from the Asian mainland to Java." The vast majority of Sundaland is now a shallow sea, and until now, fossils had never been found in this area.

Indonesia has asked former colonial ruler the Netherlands to return eight historical artefacts from its museums, including bones of the Java Man, the first known fossils of the Homo erectus ...

Homo erectus, or the first humans to walk upright, lived longer than we previously thought, according to new research. (MORE: Archaeologists discover oldest cave painting to tell a story.

Scientists have uncovered what may have been the “last stand” of Homo erectus. Previously thought to have disappeared about 300,000 years ago, Homo erectus could have survived in Indonesia ...