attributed either to an archaic Homo sapiens, an evolved Homo erectus or to other species
of Homo, such as Homo heidelbergensis. The cranium was discovered in 1978 in Shaanxi
Province in a fluvial terrace which was recovered by a loessic sequence including two
interglacial palaeosoils. ESR/U-series data analyses were carried out on several teeth
recovered from the palaeoanthropological level. Four samples exhibit different kinds of …