Java man

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Ja′va man′, 

1. Physical Anthropology the fossil remains of Homo erectus found in Java.

• 1930–35

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Java man noun

1. a type of primitive human, Homo erectus (formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus), that lived in the middle Palaeolithic Age in Java