Wu Rukang is at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. John Olsen is at the Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona

• 1: Chinese Palaeoanthropology; 2: Chronology in Chinese Palaeoanthropology; 3: Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus from Lufeng, China; 4: Gigantopithecus and “Australopithecus” in China; 5: Homo erectus in China; 6: Early Homo Sapiens in China; 7: Homo Sapiens Remains from Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic China; 8: China's Earliest Palaeolithic Assemblages; 9: The Early Palaeolithic of China; 10: The Middle Palaeolithic of China; 11: The Late Palaeolithic of China; 12: Microlithic Industries in China; 13: Aspects of the Inner Mongolian Palaeolithic; 14: On the Recognition of China's Palaeolithic Cultural Traditions; 15: Pleistocene Mammalian Faunas of China

"It is a pleasure and privilege to congratulate the editors and contributors to this volume for making available to a worldwide audience such a broad ranging overview of the accomplishments and status of researches into the human past of China." From the Foreword by F. Clark Howells "An excellent source of Paleolithic archaeology data from China.well written text." Dental Anthropology Newsletter, 1987