Java Man
Java has been inhabited by humans or their ancestors (hominina) since prehistoric times. In Central Java and the adjacent territories in East Java remains known as "Java Man" were discovered in the 1890s by the Dutch anatomist and geologist Eugène Dubois. It belongs to the species "Homo erectus", and are believed to be about 1.7 million years old. The Sangiran site is an important prehistoric site on Java.