‘This time it’s the other way around’: How Indonesia is bringing back the science of human history0

• SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
• July 10, 2026

Prehistoric cave paintings in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Credit: Mangiwau/Getty Photography Last September, a train left Surakarta, in central Java, Indonesia. On board was Eduard Pop, a paleoanthropologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, and a specialist in homo erectus – a hominid, closely related to our own species, that emerged almost