Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Museum has sent expeditions in the past year to Burma and Java, Australia, Solomon Islands, Greece, Peru, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and preparations have been completed for an expedition to the Nei East, Mr. Scott reported...
Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
Pithecanthropus erectus, of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, who browsed on the island of Java during the early Pleistocene period (Ice Age), 500,000 to 1,000,000 years ago. Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape. Britain's Sir Arthur Keith, however, world's greatest authority on fossil man, considers Pithecanthropus the earliest known form...
Terra of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences wirelessed from Java that he had found in Java and Burma crude Old Stone Age tools which convinced him that contemporaries of China's Peking Man and Java's Ape-Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) had wandered over the whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part...
...human features, including 1) general shape; 2) a groove near the knee end. On the other hand the Sinanthropus thighbones differed from those of modern humans in 1) greater stoutness; 2) faint curvature; 3) decreasing thickness toward the knee end. In these same features it differed also from the Java creature's thighbone. On this basis Dr. Weidenreich assumes the Peking man's thighbones to be the more primitive. He concludes that the Java thighbone has no relation to the Java skull-an opinion advanced by other anthropologists before him. Of the more recent finds on Java...