abstract Homo erectus is an extinct hominin species belonging to the genus Homo . Its temporal range is around 1.8-0.2 million years ago. keywords hominin Homo erectus Zhoukoudian Trinil Pleistocene Fossil Evidence The first evidence of an early hominin to be found outside Europe was discovered in what is now Indonesia by a Dutch medical doctor, Eugene Dubois. In 1890, during a field survey of promising sites in Java, Dubois found a mandible fragment at a site called Kedung Brubus. Less than a year later, in 1891, at excavations he had initiated on the banks of the Solo River at Trinil, workers unearthed a calotte, or skullcap, that was to become the type specimen of a new, and what, when compared to Homo neanderthalensis , was a significantly more primitive, species of fossil hominin. See also Homo Neanderthalensis , Fossils and Fossilization , and History of Palaeontology In the initial, 1892, publication of the Trinil remains the skullcap was placed in the genus Anthropopithecus , …