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

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

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

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

JAKARTA : Indonesia has asked former colonial ruler the Netherlands to return eight historical artefacts from its museums, including bones of the Java Man, the first known fossils of the Homo erectus ...

A fossil skull of an ancient human (homo erectus) at the Indonesian exhibition, The Oldest Civilization on Earth 130 Years After Pithecanthropus Erectus, at the National Museum, Jakarta, December 20, ...

The first large excavation of ancient human remains in Indonesia, in the 1890s, were done with great care – according to an analysis of unpublished documents from the dig. The original excavations ...

Indonesia has asked the Netherlands to hand back at least eight art pieces and natural history collections that were acquired during the colonial era, including the remains of a landmark hominid known ...

ALBUQUERQUE — New age estimates for Homo erectus fossils on the Indonesian island of Java have physical anthropologists scratching their crania. After convincing most of their colleagues that H.