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Java Man (Homo erectus erectus, formerly also Anthropopithecus erectus or Pithecanthropus erectus) is an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java (Indonesia). Estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,490,000 years old, it was, at the time of its discovery, the oldest hominid fossil ever found, and it remains the type ...
the Narmada fossil, discovered in 1982 in Madhya Pradesh, India, was at first suggested as H. erectus or Homo erectus narmadensis. [ 78 ] Meganthropus , based on fossils found in Java, dated to between 1.4 and 0.9 Mya, was tentatively grouped with H. erectus in contrast to earlier interpretations of it as a giant species of early human [ 33 ...
It was at this site in 1891 that the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois discovered the first early hominin remains to be found outside of Europe: the famous "Java Man" (Homo erectus erectus) specimen. [2] [3] [4]
The Dmanisi skull, also known as Skull 5 or D4500, is one of five skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia and classified as early Homo erectus.Described in a publication in October 2013, it is estimated to be about 1.8 million years old and is the most complete skull of a Pleistocene Homo species, [1] [2] and the first complete adult hominin skull of that degree of antiquity.
Homo erectus: 2001 Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze and Abesalom Vekua D3444 (Dmanisi Skull 4) 1.81±0.40 Homo erectus: 2003 Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze: D4500 (Dmanisi Skull 5) 1.81±0.40 Homo erectus: 2005 (published in 2013) Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze: KNM-ER 62000–62003 [42] 1.84±0.60 Homo rudolfensis: 2012 ...
Homo erectus emerges just after 2 million years ago. [11] Early H. erectus would have lived face to face with H. habilis in East Africa for nearly half a million years. [12] The oldest Homo erectus fossils appear almost contemporaneously
A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo floresiensis found at the Mata Menge site on Flores supports the idea that the hobbits were a dwarfed version of the extinct species Homo erectus ...
Controversial - the tools were found in a "secondary context" [40] Aïn al Fil [41] 1.8 El Kowm, Syria West Asia Stone tools Dmanisi [42] 1.8 Dmanisi, Georgia West Asia H. erectus (associated) Hominin remains, stone tools, butchery Swartkrans [43] 1.8 South Africa Southern Africa Homo, P. robustus (associated) Hominin remains, bone tools