In the late nineteenth century, the search for humanity’s ancient ancestors was still driven more by speculation than by fossil evidence. That changed dramatically when Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois ...

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of ancient human remains in Indonesia, in the 1890s, were done with great care – according to an analysis of unpublished documents from the dig.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

A 1894 discovery on Java's Solo River, initially dubbed Java Man, has reshaped our understanding of early human origins. Fossil remains, now identified as Homo erectus, have sparked over a century of ...

An Indonesian claim against a Dutch museum has pushed the debate about restitution into the realm of the natural history museum — where it hasn’t been much of an issue until now. A skull cap belonging ...