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Article: NEW CLUES TO OUR ORIGINS NEIGHBORS IN JAVA: PRIMITIVE AND MODERN HUMANS?(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 13, 1996
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Beetle-browed, humanlike creatures may have been neighbors with anatomically modern humans in Java as recently as 27,000 years ago, researchers say.
Their study suggests the primitive species lived on the Indonesian island almost a million years after it died out in Africa.
Using new techniques to age-date fossils found on Java, a team of anthropologists concluded that a primitive species known as Homo erectus lived in Java between 27,000 and 53,000 years ago.
Carl Swisher of the Berkeley Geochronology Center said this new date indicates Homo erectus lived in Java at the same time as Homo sapiens, the modern human.
``These are the ...