The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

The parts of the skeleton – a skull cap, molar and thigh bone – were the first known specimens of Homo erectus ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

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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 ...

The Dutch Ministry of Culture also announced on Wednesday about returning approximately 28,000 other fossils to Indonesia.

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The Netherlands pledged on Friday to return to Indonesia the remains of "Java Man", the first-ever "Homo Erectus" unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Dutch ...

The two most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to 1,000,000 ...