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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Using these new tools, they have determined that Java man and Peking man, now classified as Homo erectus, walked the earth more than 500,000 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

His theory, if correct, would trace man's ancestry back to the Pliocene Age, roughly 1,850,000 years ago and more than 1,000,000 years before Java man, commonly considered modern man's earliest known forebear.

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)