Java Man - Wikipedia
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 ...
Pithecanthropus Erectus (album) - Wikipedia
Pithecanthropus Erectus is a studio album by jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus. It was released in August 1956 through Atlantic Records. [1] [2] Mingus noted that this was the first album where he taught arrangements to his musicians by ear instead of putting the chords and arrangements in writing. [3]
Homo erectus - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
2024年1月3日 · In 1894, Dubois named the species Pithecanthropus erectus, or ‘erect ape-man.’ At that time, Pithecanthropus (later changed to Homo) erectus was the most primitive and smallest-brained of all known early human species; no early human fossils had even been discovered in Africa yet.
Java man | Characteristics & Facts | Britannica
Java man, extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) known from fossil remains found on the island of Java, Indonesia. A skullcap and thighbone discovered by the Dutch anatomist and geologist Eugene Dubois in the early 1890s were the first known fossils of …
The Java Man, his Life and Surroundings - Google Arts & Culture
Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil. Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found – half of...
Homo Erectus - World History Encyclopedia
2017年1月18日 · In the 1890s CE, fossils found by Eugène Dubois at the site of Trinil on Java, Indonesia, became the first to be classified as Pithecanthropus (now Homo) erectus. From that point on, many more Homo erectus fossils were found in Indonesia and then China, and from the 1960s CE on they were recognised in Africa.
Pithecanthropus erectus, the First Known Specimen of Homo erectus
Dubois characterized this specimen as a species "between humans and apes," naming it Pithecanthropus erectus (ape-human that stands upright). Prior to Dubois human fossils such as Neanderthal 1 and Cro-Magnon had been discovered by accident; Dubois was the first scientist to set out to discover prehistoric human fossils, and for his ...
Java Man - New World Encyclopedia
Java Man was one of the first specimens of Homo erectus to be discovered, having been located first in 1891, in Java (Indonesia). It was originally given the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus ("ape-man who walked upright") by its discoverer Eugène Dubois. Later, Java Man was redesignated as Homo erectus.
Homo erectus - A Bigger, Smarter, Faster Hominin Lineage
Eugene Dubois first identified and described a new human-like set of Indonesian fossils at the end of the 19 th century, naming the specimens Pithecanthropus erectus (upright, ape-man) because of...
Long journey of Indonesian Homo erectus: Arrival and dispersal in …
2023年7月1日 · Apart from Kedungbrubus and Trinil where the holotype of Pithecanthropus erectus was discovered in 1890–1891 by Dubois, hominid sites are currently scattered in eastern Central Java (Sangiran, Sambungmacan, Ngandong, and Patiayam), western Central Java (Semedo and Bumiayu), East Java (Ngawi, Perning), and West Java (Rancah).