Mojokerto

The find spot in eastern Java, Indonesia, of a skull of an archaic Homo erectus child, dated to c 1.5 million years BP or before. Believed to be the oldest hominid fossil in Southeast Asia, the Mojokerto child has also been classed as Pithecanthropus robustus and P. modjokertensis.

[Modjokerto]. Find-spot (1936) in eastern Java, Indonesia, of a skull of an archaic Homo child, located 8 metres above a potassium-argon dated pumice of 1.9 ± 0.4 million vears. Believed to be the oldest hominid fossil in Southeast Asia, the Mojokerto child is usually classified as Homo erectus, but attempts have also been made to classify it in the more archaic Homo modjo-kertensis (or Homo habilis) grade. See