Trinil

Pseudodon shell DUB1006-fL with the earliest known geometric engravings, supposedly, made by Homo erectus; ca. 500,000 BP; from Trinil (Java); Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Netherlands).

The Homo erectus "Java Man" in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands.

Trinil is a palaeoanthropological site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo in Ngawi Regency, East Java, Indonesia. It was at this site in 1891 that the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois discovered the first early hominin remains to be found outside of Europe: the famous "Java Man" (Homo erectus erectus) specimen.

Trinil is located in Indonesia

Trinil

Trinil (Indonesia)

References

Further reading

Hooijer, Dirk A.; Kurtén, Björn (1984). "Trinil and Kedungbrubus: the Pithecanthropus-bearing fossil faunas of Java and their relative age". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 21 (2): 135–41. JSTOR 23734854.
Jacob, Teuku (1973). "Palaeoanthropological discoveries in Indonesia with special reference to the finds of the last two decades". Journal of Human Evolution. 2 (6): 473–8, IN5 – IN11, 479–85. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(73)90125-5.

7°22′27″S 111°21′28″E / 7.3743°S 111.3578°E / -7.3743; 111.3578

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