Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Indonesia that could rewrite the story of human origins. They found the skull of Homo erectus, an ancient human ancestor, over 140,000 years after it ...

They discovered the skull of Homo erectus, an ancient human ancestor, as well as 6,000 animal fossils of 36 species including those of Komodo dragons, buffalos, deer, and elephant.

This placed the valley fill and fossils between about 162,000 and 119,000 years ago, firmly within the late Middle Pleistocene epoch. The two Homo erectus skull fragments, a frontal and a parietal ...

Science Archaeology An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent of the human population 800,000 years ago ...