Introduction
“Java Man” is the informal name given to Pleistocene Homo erectus inhabitants of Java. The fossil discoveries on the island include the first for this extinct species, which is now known to have been widely distributed across the temperate and tropical zones of the Old World. Today, more than 100 skeletal specimens have been attributed to this species from localities in Central and East Java (Fig. 1; Indriati 2004). No other confirmed specimen of Homo erectus is known from elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
The Java Man (Homo erectus) fossil localities described in the text: Ngandong (Ng), Mojokerto (Mo), Patiayam (Pa), Sangiran Dome (Sg) and Trinil (Tr); Song Terus cave (St) has Paleolithic artifacts but no Homo erectus fossils (After Huffman et al. (2012). © Frank Huffman, Univ. of Texas)
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Ciochon, R.L., Huffman, O.F. (2014). Java Man. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_712
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