Trinil is a palaeoanthropological site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo in

Ngawi Regency Ngawi Regency (Javanese language, Javanese: ꦏꦧꦸꦥꦠꦺꦤ꧀ꦔꦮꦶ) is an inland Regency (Indonesia), regency (''kabupaten'') of Indonesia, on the island of Java. Ngawi is well known around the world for its ''Pithecanthropus erectus'' ...

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. It was at this site in 1891 that the Dutch

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...

Eugène Dubois discovered the first early

hominin The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines). They comprise two extant genera: ''Homo'' (humans) and '' Pan'' (chimpanzees and bonobos), and in standard usage exclude the genus '' Gorilla'' ( gorillas) ...

remains to be found outside of

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: the famous " Java Man" (''Homo erectus erectus'') specimen.

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