WANG Youping

Department of Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing 100871 China

FIRST PARAGRAPH: The migrations and settlements of Pleistocene hominins in China and related issues will be discussed in this paper. Since 1920’s, thousands Palaeolithic localities have been found in China. Those provide more detailed information on the history of human evolution in this region. The earliest Palaeolithic remain found in the Nihewan Basin, north China is at least 1.6 myr old. Some hominid sites in central and south China are even earlier such as Yuanmou in Yunnan, Jianshi in Hubei and so on. Those are the earliest record of the migrations and settlements of Pleistocene Hominins in China as well as East Asia.