PROF. EUGENE DUBOIS, the discoverer of Pithecanthropus, has recently published1 an account of fossil remains of man found in a deposit in Java, which he regards as of Pleistocene age. In 1890, the ...

The original excavations revealed that Homo erectus on Java lived in a lush valley alongside a range of large animals, including antelope and elephants.

Where and when did they live? Homo erectus was first discovered in Java, Indonesia and then China – these are the famous "Java Man" and "Peking Man" fossils.

Wadjak man is represented by two skulls discovered in the terraces of a dried-up fresh-water lake near the southern coast of Java, one in 1889 and the second by Prof. Dubois himself in the ...