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First Homo erectus discovered

First Homo erectus discovered
Who
Eugéne Dubois, Homo erectus
What
First
Where
Indonesia (Trinil, Java)
When
1891

The species Homo erectus (upright human), a probable direct ancestor of modern humans (H. sapiens), was discovered by the paleoanthropologist Eugéne Dubois (Netherlands, 1858-1940) at Trinil, Java, Indonesia, in 1891.

Some Javanese H. erectus fossils have been dated to about 1.3 million years old.

H. erectus is also the longest-lived hominin as a species, thought to have emerged c. 2 million years ago in East Africa and with the most recent examples, also found in Java, dated to just 108,000-117,000 years old, giving a span of around 1.9 million years old.