Object Details
- Is this an original object?
- No
- Age
- Between 1 million and 700,000 years old
- Summary
- While searching for fossils in Java, physician Eugène Dubois uncovered the tophalf of an early human skull in 1891. This skull, Trinil 2, is long, with a flat forehead and distinct browridges and a sagittal keel, though many of its features have been worn flat with age. Dubois named a new species, Pithecanthropus erectus after this specimen in 1894, but Ernst Mayr reassigned Trinil 2 to Homo erectus in the 1950s. This skull is flat on the bottom because the plaster base (brown and white areas) added underneath the fossil bone for display purposes is included in this scan.
- Date of discovery
- 1891
- Discovered by
- Eugene Dubois
- Original Object Holding Institution
- Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Netherlands)
- Location of Discovery
- Trinil, Indonesia
- Site
- Trinil, Java, Indonesia
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Original Object Identifier
- Trinil 2
- USNM Number
- N362451-0
- GUID
- ark:/65665/3041ce912-1a3d-46de-ab1b-6258bba94e54
- Species
- Homo erectus
- Record ID
- dpo_3d_200058
