No other area of Southeast Asia has produced a record of hominid fossils as rich as that discovered in Java, though fragmentary finds have been made, notably in Vietnam and southern China. Together, these finds indicate that early hominids had spread from Africa into Asia by at least one million, and possibly two million, years ago, and dispersed over the whole Southeast Asian region.
None of the fossilized hominid bones has so far been found associated with artifacts, so we know...