Java man

American  

noun

1. the fossil remains of Homo erectus found in Java.

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Java man British  

noun

1. Also called: Trinil man.  a type of primitive man, Homo erectus (formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus ), that lived in the middle Palaeolithic Age in Java

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Java man Scientific  

/ jä′və /

1. See pithecanthropus

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Etymology

Origin of Java man

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

He called his creature Anthropopithecus erectus; its popular name was Java man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Java man, discovered by a Dutch doctor who found a skullcap, or cranium, in 1891 and a thighbone in 1892, was obviously an even earlier, less evolved specimen than Neanderthal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leakey's earliest man is described as more than 600,000 years old. or some 100,000 years older than the Peking man or Java man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, he recognized that the creature was even more primitive than Java man.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no evidence of the connection of these races with the Java man or the Heidelberg man.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)