The Netherlands will give back the "Java Man" fossils that were taken "against the will of the people" from colonial Indonesia.

Java Man’, or remains of a Homo erectus unearthed by Dutch geologist Eugene Dubois in Java, were used to suggest the existence of early human in Asia, challenging prevailing theories that ancient ...

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a commission ruled that they were removed in the colonial era “against the will of ...

In addition to the Java Man fossil, the Netherlands will also return approximately 28,000 fossils or specimens from Dubois's ...

The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's request to ...

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The Netherlands pledged on Friday to return to Indonesia the remains of “Java Man”, the first-ever “Homo erectus” unearthed by modern scientists, in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Dutch ...