>>The human ancestor Homo erectus emerged about two million years ago, and was thought to have all but disappeared by about 300,000 years ago. But now, an international team of scientists has uncovered what may have been the species’ “last stand” in Indonesia. Here, Homo erectus could have survived until as recently as 108,000 years ago.

But now, a new study has identified the last-known surviving colony of Home erectus, on the island of Java in Indonesia. The site of Ngandong is home to a rich bonebed of fossils, including 12 skull caps and two tibia from Homo erectus. The research team has finally managed to date the bones, and found them to be younger than expected.

This age range means Homo erectus lived in Indonesia around the same time as Homo floresiensis (the so-called “Hobbits”), and Homo luzonensis in the Phillipines to the north. Interestingly, they may have overlapped more directly with Denisovans in the area, even breeding with them.<<

https://newatlas.com/science/indonesian-fossils-last-known-homo-erectus/

PermeateFree said:

>>The human ancestor Homo erectus emerged about two million years ago, and was thought to have all but disappeared by about 300,000 years ago. But now, an international team of scientists has uncovered what may have been the species’ “last stand” in Indonesia. Here, Homo erectus could have survived until as recently as 108,000 years ago.

But now, a new study has identified the last-known surviving colony of Home erectus, on the island of Java in Indonesia. The site of Ngandong is home to a rich bonebed of fossils, including 12 skull caps and two tibia from Homo erectus. The research team has finally managed to date the bones, and found them to be younger than expected.

This age range means Homo erectus lived in Indonesia around the same time as Homo floresiensis (the so-called “Hobbits”), and Homo luzonensis in the Phillipines to the north. Interestingly, they may have overlapped more directly with Denisovans in the area, even breeding with them.<<

https://newatlas.com/science/indonesian-fossils-last-known-homo-erectus/

Good.

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

>>The human ancestor Homo erectus emerged about two million years ago, and was thought to have all but disappeared by about 300,000 years ago. But now, an international team of scientists has uncovered what may have been the species’ “last stand” in Indonesia. Here, Homo erectus could have survived until as recently as 108,000 years ago.

But now, a new study has identified the last-known surviving colony of Home erectus, on the island of Java in Indonesia. The site of Ngandong is home to a rich bonebed of fossils, including 12 skull caps and two tibia from Homo erectus. The research team has finally managed to date the bones, and found them to be younger than expected.

This age range means Homo erectus lived in Indonesia around the same time as Homo floresiensis (the so-called “Hobbits”), and Homo luzonensis in the Phillipines to the north. Interestingly, they may have overlapped more directly with Denisovans in the area, even breeding with them.<<

https://newatlas.com/science/indonesian-fossils-last-known-homo-erectus/

Good.

“Solo Man (Homo erectus soloensis) is a subspecies of Homo erectus, identified based on fossil evidence of 18 specimens discovered between 1931 and 1933 by Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald from sites along the Solo River, on the Indonesian island of Java, dated to between 550,000 and 108,000 years old. The remains are also commonly referred to as Ngandong (now at Kradenan district, Blora Regency), after the village near where they were first recovered, and older remains located at Bapang.”

“It is a late variant of H. erectus, dated to after 120,000 years ago, overlapping with Homo heidelbergensis and possibly with early Homo sapiens. Though its morphology was, for the most part, typical of Homo erectus, its cranial capacity of 1,013–1,251 cm³ places it amongst the larger-brained representatives of its species (compared to 900 cm³ for the older Java Man), and its culture was also unusually advanced.”

“Due to the tools found with the fossils and many of their more gracile anatomical features, Solo Man was first classified as a subspecies of Homo sapiens (dubbed Homo sapiens soloensis) and long thought to be the ancestor of modern Australo-Melanesians. More rigorous studies in the 1990s have concluded that this is not the case. Analysis of 18 crania from Sangiran, Trinil, Sambungmacan, and Ngandong show chronological development from the Bapang-AG to Ngandong periods.”

So if “Solo Man” is H. erectus, then fossils of H. erectus found in China would have to be “Han Solo” wouldn’t they?