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Approximate age:1,400,000 years old=average of minimum (1 Ma) and maximum (1.8 Ma)
Date based on: K-Ar (but not problems with provenience See map of sites with similar ages
Dating reference: Date often contested due to lack of certainty of location of original site. Early Pleistocene Modjokerto date from Swisher et al.(Swisher, C. C., Curtis, G. H., Jacob, T., Getty, A. G., & Suprijo, A. (1994). Age of the earliest known hominids in Java, Indonesia. Science, 263(5150), 1118.
) is actually more like an oldest possible age.
Hominids: Homo erectus
Archaeology:
Important specimens: Modjokerto child skull
Notes: Provenience of fossils is the subject of a colorful controversy (Huffman et al. 2006). In general, the Pucangan Formation fossils date from between about 0.9 Ma and 1.6 Ma (Larick, R., R. L. Ciochon, and Y. Zaim. 2001. Early Pleistocene 40Ar/39Ar ages for Bapang Formation hominins, Central Jawa, Indonesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98:4866.), so the seemingly old 1.8 Ma date on Mojokerto by Swisher et al. is not outlandish, although it might best be considered a mximum age.
Location: upper Pucangan Formation, Indonesia
Map location/coordinates reference: Huffman, O. F., Zaim, Y., Kappelman, J., Ruez, D. R., de Vos, J., Rizal, Y., et al. (2006). Relocation of the 1936 Mojokerto skull discovery site near Perning, East Java. Journal of human evolution, 50(4), 431-451.;
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