Sentences with phrase «erectus types»

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Indeed, H. erectus now includes the 1 - million - year - old type specimen from Trinil on the island of Java as well as fossils from South Africa, East Africa, Georgia, Europe, and China that span roughly 300,000 to 1.9 million years.

Here we report on a fossil freshwater shell assemblage from the Hauptknochenschicht («main bone layer») of Trinil (Java, Indonesia), the type locality of Homo erectus discovered by Eugène Dubois in 1891 (refs 2 and 3).

Even if it were Homo neanderthalensis or Homo erectus, the type of marks and tools left behind would be more elaborated an unequivocal.

There are no unambiguous archaic sapiens in Asia but two recently - discovered skulls from China seem to have the flattened erectus - type foreheads, yet their ECV's are apparently close to the modern human average and their faces are flatter than the usual erectus specimens.

According to these reports a well preserved erectus - type skull has been uncovered in a gravel pit near Reilingen.

Mike Morwood: There are no comparable early hominin discoveries in southeast Asia since Eugene DuBois» finding of the type H. erectus specimens at Trinil, East Java, in the 1890s.