ABSTRACT
The assemblage of pre-Late Palaeolithic Homo sapiens fossils known from China is entirely the result of discoveries made after the Liberation in 1949. Sixty years ago Emile Licent and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin recovered an isolated human tooth in association with what was thought at the time to be a Middle Palaeolithic archaeological assemblage at Dagouwan in the Ordos Region of southern Inner Mongolia (Licent et al. 1926; Teilhard and Licent 1924; Terra 1941). Subsequent investigations have proven the Dagouwan sequence is actually of late Upper Pleistocene antiquity.
