In this article, we sketch a political and decolonial biography of ‘Java Man’, the fossilized remains of a Homo erectus specimen, housed in Naturalis, the Natural History Museum, in the Netherlands.

The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in Indonesia in 1893. Fossil remains of Homo erectus have since been found throughout Africa and Asia, making it the first ...

An ancient relative of humans has been dubbed 'Nutcracker Man' because of his ... spread through out Asia. Homo erectus, remains of which have been found in Java, Indonesia, and mainland China ...

While experts haven’t confirmed Pink’s exact hominin species just yet, they may belong to our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus. Hominins began migrating into Eurasia at least 1.8 ...

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 ...