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Wajak crania

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The Wajak crania (als Wadjak) are two fossil human skulls discovered near Wajak, a town in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia in 1888/90. Dubbed "Wajak Man", and formerly classified as a separate species (Homo wadjakensis), the skulls are now recognized as an early anatomically modern human fossil. Most likely dated to the early-to-mid Holocene (12,000 to 5,000 years ago), their morphology has been described as proto-Australoid, or intermediate between Solo Man and contemporary Australo-Melanesians, possibly with Mongoloid admixture.[1]

References

  1. ^ Peter Bellwood, Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago: Revised Edition (2007), 86ff.
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