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 ...

When it comes to the study of human evolution, the discovery of Java Man occupies a very special place. The fossil remains were discovered in the 1890s along the Solo River in the present-day East ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam See more ...

In the late nineteenth century, the search for humanity’s ancient ancestors was still driven more by speculation than by fossil evidence. That changed dramatically when Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois ...

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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 ...

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, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - After a long wait, the government of the Netherlands has finally returned theDubois collection, including the fossil of Homo erectus (formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus) to ...

JAKARTA: Prehistoric bones belonging to “Java Man” — the first known fossil evidence of Homo erectus — went on display at Indonesia’s National Museum on Thursday, more than 130 years after they were ...