Editing Central Java (section)

=== Prehistoric era ===
[[File:Sangiran 17-02.JPG|thumb|Fossil of the ''[[Java Man]],'' found in [[Sangiran]], [[Sragen Regency]]]]
Java has been inhabited by humans or their ancestors ([[hominina]]) since prehistoric times. In Central Java and the adjacent territories in East Java remains known as "[[Java Man]]" were discovered in the 1890s by the Dutch anatomist and geologist [[Eugène Dubois]]. It belongs to the species ''[[Homo erectus]]'',<ref name = hominid>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9043428/Java-man |title=Java man (extinct hominid)  |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=10 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911233444/https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9043428/Java-man |archive-date=11 September 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> and are believed to be about 1.7 million years old.<ref name = hominid /> The [[Sangiran]] site is an important prehistoric site on Java.

Around {{formatnum:40000}} years ago, [[Australoid]] peoples related to modern Australian Aboriginals and [[Melanesians]] settled in Central Java. They were assimilated or replaced by Mongoloid [[Austronesians]] by about 3,000 BC, who brought technologies of pottery, outrigger canoes, the bow and arrow, and introduced domesticated pigs, fowls, and dogs. They also introduced cultivated rice and millet.<ref>Robert Cribb, ''Historical Atlas of Indonesia'' (2000:30)</ref>