If there were archaic hominids living in East Asia 16,000 years ago, evolving separately for hundreds of thousands of years, what effect could that have on the perception of the populations living there today? I so understand the author's exhortation to call the skeletons early Homo sapiens. The article discusses the state of research on late Pleistocene hominid fossils in East Asia. The author emphasizes the lack of conclusive evidence for assigning these fossils to the species Homo heidelbergensis and suggests continuing to use the term archaic Homo sapiens for all finds. He also points out the need to increase the quality and quantity of data on hominids from the area.