Sundaland was a vast prehistoric landmass that once connected mainland Southeast Asia with what are now the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo. During colder periods of the Ice Age, sea levels ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...

For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense landmass—low, fertile, and threaded with rivers—stretching from the Asian ...

The findings come from sand dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia. Scientists discovered a Homo erectus skull in the Madura Strait. The skull was buried under silt and sand around ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans. Scattered across the newly created island, ...

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An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) has found that rapid sea-level rise drove early settlers in Southeast Asia to migrate during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged ...