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The Dali Skull, or Dali Man, is a nearly complete fossilized skull, probably representing an early form of Archaic Homo sapiens which lived in the Late Middle Pleistocene period. It was discovered by Shuntang Liu in 1978 in Dali County in the Shaanxi Province of China. The dating of the skull has been a subject of debate. Uranium-series dating of ox teeth from the site obtained a date of 209,000 ±23,000 years, however, the nature of the association between the hominid cranium and the ox teeth remains uncertain. The fossil is considered to be the most complete skull of that time period found in China.
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