Homo erectus was first discovered in Java (and was known as “Java Man” until the species was officially renamed), but sossilized remains had never before been found on the seafloor between ...

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of ancient human remains in Indonesia, in the 1890s, were done with great care – according to an analysis of unpublished documents from the dig.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

While this evidence shows these ancient people wandered around for quite some time, there still isn’t any evidence that H. erectus survived long enough to hang out with modern humans on Java.