In this article, we sketch a political and decolonial biography of ‘Java Man’, the fossilized remains of a Homo erectus specimen, housed in Naturalis, the Natural History Museum, in the Netherlands.

The Pithecanthropus soloensis skull, discovered by Catur Hari Gumono in Ngawi, East Java, in 1987 ... at the Geological Museum in Bandung and the Sangiran Early Man Museum, this is the first ...