State of Knowledge and Current Debates
Introduction
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the “Pithecanthropus” of Java (Homo erectus) profoundly marked the history of science and definitively rooted Southeast Asian prehistory in a paleobiogeographic perspective (Fig. 1).
The islands of Southeast Asia, map of localization of sites
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Sémah, F., Simanjuntak, T., Dizon, E., Gaillard, C., Sémah, AM. (2020). Insular Southeast Asia in the Lower Paleolithic. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_1907
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