Trinil

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Trinil is a paleoanthropological excavation site on the banks of the River Bengawan Solo (Solo) in the administrative district of Ngawi , East Java Province (Jawa Timur), on Java in Indonesia . It was the place where, in 1891, the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois found the first prehistoric hominine remains outside of Europe , who later became well known as the Java man . Dubois' find "Trinil 2" later became the type specimen of Homo erectus .

literature

  • Dirk A. Hooijer, Björn Kurtén: Trinil and Kedungbrubus: the Pithecanthropus-bearing fossil faunas of Java and their relative age . In: Annales Zoologici Fennici . 21, No. 2, 1984, pp. 135-141. JSTOR 23734854 .
  • Teuku Jacob: Palaeoanthropological discoveries in Indonesia with special reference to the finds of the last two decades . In: Journal of Human Evolution . 2, No. 6, 1973, pp. 473-478, IN5-IN11, 479-485. doi : 10.1016 / 0047-2484 (73) 90125-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/trinil-2
  2. ^ Turner W: On M. Dubois' Description of Remains recently found in Java, named by him Pithecanthropus erectus : With Remarks on so-called Transitional Forms between Apes and Man . In: Journal of Anatomy and Physiology . 29, No. Pt 3, April 1895, pp. 424-45. PMID 17232143 . PMC 1328414 (free full text).
  3. ↑ Hepburn D: The Trinil Femur ( Pithecanthropus erectus ), contrasted with the Femora of Various Savage and Civilized Races . In: Journal of Anatomy and Physiology . 31, No. Pt 1, October 1896, pp. 1-17. PMID 17232222 . PMC 1327807 (free full text).
  4. ↑ Gary J. Sawyer, Viktor Deak: The Long Way to Man. Life pictures from 7 million years of evolution. Spectrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008, p. 117. The “minimum age” is shown here as 700,000 years, and the - “possibly too high” - upper limit is shown as 1.5 million years.

Coordinates: 7 ° 22 ′ 27.5 ″  S , 111 ° 21 ′ 28.1 ″  E