# The Netherlands pledged to return to Indonesia the remains of “Java Man”, the first-ever “Homo Erectus” unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Dutch plan to hand back some 28-thousand fossils of the “Dubois Collection” looted by anatomist and geologist Eugene Dubois in 1891, when Indonesia was still a colony of the Netherlands. The discovery enabled scientists to reconstruct “Homo Erectus”, “upright human”, who lived from around 1.9-million years ago to about 150-thousand years ago.
Netherlands to return ‘Java Man’ to Indonesia