A WELL-PRESERVED CRANIUM OF AN ARCHAIC TYPE OF EARLY HOMO SAPIENS FROM DALI, CHINA

This paper deals with a well-preserved human cranium of late Middle Pleistocene, belong-ing to a young male individual.It has many characters identical to those of early Homosapiens or intermediate between Homo erectus and modern man. It possesses also some featuressimilar to those of modern man, and close to Homo erectus in some respects. So it probablybelongs to an archaic type of early Homo sapiens. Taken with other Chinese human fossilsit is on the continuous human evolutionary line in China. The cranium differs from Neander-thals in a number of racial characteristics. It is therefore considered here a new subspecies:Homo sapiers daliensis.