In 1894, a Dutch anatomist brushed sediment from a riverbank in Java; it uncovered Java Man and reshaped the search for human origins

In the 1890s, Eugène Dubois conducted pivotal excavations in Java that unearthed Java Man, a groundbreaking fossil that ...
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‘Java Man’ fossils return home to Indonesia after 130 years in the Netherlands; why it is significant

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 ...