A skull cap fossil and a molar fossil of Java Man (Homo erectus) repatriated from the Netherlands in early December, are on public display at the National Museum of Indonesia. Photo: AFP The ...

The Hermosa Harmony Project hosted its fist Java Man Jam last November, where local musicians gathered for a live show outside the popular coffee shop, in its initial effort to foster live music in ...

ALBUQUERQUE — New age estimates for Homo erectus fossils on the Indonesian island of Java have physical anthropologists scratching their crania. After convincing most of their colleagues that H.

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 ...

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, ...

The Netherlands will give back the "Java Man" fossils that were taken "against the will of the people" from colonial Indonesia. The fossils were the first to show links between apes and humans. The ...

Original fossils of Pithecanthropus erectus (now Homo erectus) found in Java in 1891 — PETER MAAS/EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG JAKARTA — Indonesia has asked former colonial ruler the Netherlands to return eight ...

Decades after the ground-breaking find that changed humankind’s understanding of evolution, Homo erectus, popularly known as Java Man, has finally flown home to Indonesia, where it first emerged. The ...