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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 specimen for Homo erectus. Led by Eugène Dubois , the excavation team uncovered a tooth , a skullcap , and a thighbone at Trinil on the banks of the Solo River in East Java .
Trinil is a palaeoanthropological site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River in Ngawi Regency, East Java Province, Indonesia. 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.
The Happisburgh footprints were a set of fossilized hominid footprints that date to the end of the Early Pleistocene, around 850–950,000 years ago. They were discovered in May 2013 in a newly uncovered sediment layer of the Cromer Forest Bed on a beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk , England, and carefully photographed in 3D before being ...
Indonesia: G.H.R. von Koenigswald: Sangiran 2: 1.15±0.45 Homo erectus: 1937 Indonesia: G.H.R. von Koenigswald: Madam Buya [58] 1.00 Homo erectus: 1997 Eritrea: Ernesto Abbate: National Museum of Eritrea: ATD6-15 and ATD6-69 (Niño de la Gran Dolina 342) 0.900 [59] Homo antecessor or Homo erectus: 1994 Spain: Bermúdez & Arsuaga: Museo de la ...
Solidified footprints dated to about 350 ka and associated with H. heidelbergensis were found in southern Italy in 2003. [49] H. sapiens lost the brow ridges from their hominid ancestors as well as the snout completely, though their noses evolve to be protruding (possibly from the time of H. erectus). By 200 ka, humans had stopped their brain ...
Happisburgh footprints – early Pleistocene fossilized hominid footprints found in a sediment layer on a beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, England, dating to more than 800,000 years ago, Ileret – footprints of Homo erectus found at Ileret, Northern Kenya, dating to approximately 1.5 million years ago. List of fossil sites (with link directory)
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural ...
Solo Man (Homo erectus soloensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus that lived along the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, about 117,000 to 108,000 years ago in the Late Pleistocene. This population is the last known record of the species.