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Meganthropus is an extinct genus of non-hominin hominid ape, known from the Pleistocene of Indonesia. It is known from a series of large jaw and skull fragments found at the Sangiran site near Surakarta in Central Java , Indonesia , alongside several isolated teeth.
Franzen argued that robust australopithecines had reached not only Indonesia, as Meganthropus, but also China: In this way we arrive at the conclusion that the recognition of australopithecines in Asia would not confuse but could help to clarify the early evolution of hominids ["hominins"] on that continent.
While at Sangiran, van Koenigswald discovered at least 40 fossils and named them as Meganthropus palaeojavanicus. [4] Although the fossils that were found in Trinil and Sangiran sites are the oldest evidence found within the region, the date of these fossils—implicated by Dubois—is still ambiguous.
Another giant hominid was Meganthropus palaeojavanicus at 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) in body height, [218] although it is known from very poor remains. [219] During the Pleistocene, some archaic humans were close in sizes or even larger than early modern humans.
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).
Gustav Heinrich Ralph (often cited as G. H. R.) von Koenigswald (13 November 1902 – 10 July 1982) was a German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including Homo erectus.
Solo Man (Homo erectus soloensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus that lived along the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, about 117,000 to 108,000 years ago in the Late Pleistocene.
Lufengpithecus (lit. ' Lufeng ape ') is an extinct genus of ape, known from the Late Miocene of East Asia.It is known from thousands of dental remains and a few skulls and probably weighed about 50 kg (110 lb). [1]