While drinking a cup of Joe or grabbing a breakfast burrito or a fresh-baked pastry at Java Man on Pier Avenue, one can get a sense of history. The coffee shop resides in a beach house that was built ...

Thirty years ago — before coffee chains dotted South Bay streets — Rick Hankus took a chance and decided to open Java Man in a decades-old beach cottage in Hermosa Beach. Hankus and his staff at the ...

The Netherlands will give back the "Java Man" fossils that were taken "against the will of the people" from colonial Indonesia. The fossils were the first to show links between apes and humans.The ...

Original fossils of Pithecanthropus erectus (now Homo erectus) found in Java in 1891 — PETER MAAS/EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG JAKARTA — Indonesia has asked former colonial ruler the Netherlands to return eight ...