Earliest Indonesia
Earliest Historical Records The Indonesian archipelago stretches for more than 3,000 miles east to west and is the largest island complex in the world. The sea has inevitably influenced Indonesian history. Not surprisingly, the boat became a pervasive metaphor in literary and oral tradition and in the arts in Indonesia. Monsoon winds, blowing north and […]
Homo Floresiensis
Homo Floresiensis, The Hobbit. Homo floresiensis (“Flores Man”; nicknamed “Hobbit”) is a species of small archaic human that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago. The remains of an individual who would have stood about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) in height were discovered in […]
Java Man
Java Man The Missing Link Java Man (Homo erectus erectus, formerly also Anthropopithecus erectus, Pithecanthropus erectus) is an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java (Dutch East Indies, now part of Indonesia). Estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,000,000 years old, it was, at the time of its discovery, […]
Meet Bessé, Holocene hunter-gatherer
7.200 year old pre-Neolithican skeleton found in Sulawesi Archeologists found a 7.200 year old skeleton of a woman buried in a cave in South Sulawesi.The skeleton is a young woman of around 17 – 20 years old. Genetic analyses show that this pre-Neolithic forager, who is associated with the ‘Toalean’ technocomplex. The archeologists who found […]