The bone bed at Ngandong was also filled with animal remains, especially deer and the large bovid ancestors of water buffalo and Java’s banteng wild cattle.
What finally finished Homo erectus off after nearly two million years of survival? Ciochon and colleagues theorize that climate change played a role. The bone bed at Ngandong was also filled with animal remains, especially deer and the large bovid ancestors of water buffalo and Java’s banteng wild cattle. These large mammals thrived in open woodland ecosystems like the African homeland of Homo erectus.