On the misidentification and unreliable context of the new "human teeth" from Fuyan Cave (China).

Sun et al. (1) question the Late Pleistocene chronologies of five hominin sites from southern China, including Fuyan Cave with 47 Homo sapiens teeth (2), and suggest they belong to the Holocene. Here we question the validity of their study, based on the uncertain origin and taxonomical identification of the two “human” specimens from Fuyan (FY-HT-1 and FY-HT-2) and the quality standards of their ancient DNA (aDNA) and 14C analysis. [↵][1]2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: maria.martinon{at}cenieh.es or yanjun_cai{at}xjtu.edu.cn. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1