IDNO

P.9826.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Site where the remains of Pith. erect. were found."

Place

SE Asia; Indonesia; Java

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “?Asia”, but the catalogue card for the related image, P.9823.ACH1, gives the location of Java, which is in Indonesia. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: Mappoint, JD 31/10/2009]

Context: Pithecanthropus erectus (or Java Man) was the classification originally given by Dutch anatomist and geologist Eugène Dubois to his discovery of the first known fossils of the species Homo erectus. The first skullcap and thighbone were excavated in October 1891 at Trinil - Ngawi Regency on the banks of the Solo River in East Java, Indonesia. A more complete skeleton was later found at Sangiran, Central Java, 18 km to the north of Solo. [Source: Brittanica Encyclopedia Online, JD 2/11/2009]