The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo erectus, and archaic Homo. Much of the Sunda Shelf is submerged. At ...

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, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Materials shared by researcher Danny Hilman Natawidjaja during a discussion to explain how melting ice caused sea levels to rise and submerge Sundaland. (ANTARA/HO-BRIN) Sundaland is a term used by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Where do we come from? Paul Rodgers charts some of the latest work exploring the movement and develo By Paul Rodgers Where do we come from? It’s an abiding question, and one that has been only ...

Lost lands, called Sundaland, were once vast open plains with flowing rivers around 140,000 years ago THE bones of a long-extinct human ancestor have been dredged up from the seafloor, just off the ...

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 ...

Buried beneath the sea off the coast of Indonesia, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could rewrite the story of human origins. The skull of Homo erectus, an ancient human ancestor, ...