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Migrations
Homo erectus arrived in what is now Indonesia through the Sunda Corridor, which connected what are now the Indonesian islands to the Southeast Asian mainland as a result of three forces: the rising of the continental shelf because the Indian plate was pushing into Asian continent, volcanic activity that created new land, and a ice age that lowered sea levels because much water was trapped as ice near the poles. As an extension of the Asian continental shelf, Sundaland was populated by... Russell Ciochon hypothesizes that H. erectus were looking for volcanically active regions because... This would explain why they settled in what is now Central Java.

Artifacts and culture
The material culture of Indonesian hominins is not well known. No stone tools have been found in the same layers as the fossils, prompting suggestions that H. erectus used bamboo tools rather than stone tools.