140,000-Year-Old Homo Erectus Bones Discovered on 'Drowned Land' in Indonesia

140,000-Year-Old Bones Reveal Clues About Behavior of Extinct Human Species - Archaeology Magazine

JAVA, INDONESIA—Homo erectus, modern humans' archaic hominin relative, was the first human species to migrate out of Africa. One of the places they eventually settled was in Southeast Asia, as H. erectus fossils found on the island of Java date back 1.6 million years. Archaeologists working there recently gained new insight into the way these early humans lived, according to a statement released by Leiden University. Dredging operations in the M…

Scientists Found Evidence of Our Ancient Human Ancestors Underwater, Suggesting a Sunken World

Some of the early hominins evidently went island hopping.

140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones discovered on 'drowned land' in Indonesia

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on land that is now underwater in Southeast Asia.

Madrid. Archaeological finds on the seabed off the coast of Java, Indonesia, offer a unique perspective on how and where Homo erectus lived 140 thousand years ago.

Geologists have identified a wide area of land shortage that has remained until recently hidden from people, writes eryth.com.This is about an understanding of nearly five million square kilometers, covered by...

Traces of a mysterious human population have been found deep in the sea - Not only were Homo erectus remains discovered, but more than 6,000 animal fossils were also discovered.