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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 ...
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 ...
Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (周口店北京人遗址), also romanized as Choukoutien, is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing.It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus (Homo erectus pekinensis), dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the giant short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
The remains of Homo erectus have been found on the Indonesian island of Java and elsewhere in Asia as well as Africa. ... Van den Bergh said that the hobbit remains unearthed at Mata Menge were ...
These sites attest that early Homo erectus have crossed the North African tracts, which are usually hot and dry. [4]: 2 There is little time between Homo erectus' apparent arrival in South Caucasus around 1.8 Ma, and its probable arrival in East and Southeast Asia.
Homo erectus: 1891 Indonesia: Eugène Dubois: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden Ternifine 2-3 now Tighennif [61] 0.70 Homo erectus: 1954 Algeria: C. Arambourg & B. Hoffstetter Sangiran 17 [62] 0.70 Homo erectus: 1969 Indonesia: S. Sartono Peking Man: 0.73±0.50 [63] Homo erectus: 1921 China: Davidson Black: Lost/stolen Nanjing Man: 0.60±0. ...
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 ...
Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene.Its fossils have been found in a cave some 47 km (29 mi) southwest of Beijing (then referred to in the West as Peking), known as the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site.