Java Man. Skull cap of the Trinil 2 hominid fossil Pithecanthropus erectus, meaning erect ape-man, later renamed Homo erectus, found in 1894 during ex

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Java Man. Skull cap of the Trinil 2 hominid fossil Pithecanthropus erectus, meaning erect ape-man, later renamed Homo erectus, found in 1894 during excavations lead by Eugene Dubois (1858-1940). This specimen is popularly known as Java man. It was found, along with a complete femur (thighbone) in sedimentary deposits at a bend of the Solo river in Trinil, Java, Indonesia. Homo erectus is the most widespread and longest-surviving of all the fossil hominids. Its geographical spread included north and east Africa, Europe, Indonesia and China. It survived from approximately million years ago (east Africa) to 300,000 (China).

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