The Hualongdong people are extinct humans that lived in eastern China around 300,000 years ago during the late Middle Pleistocene.
More complete fossils found in 2015 indicate that they cannot be directly assigned to any Homo species as they also exhibit archaic human features.
[5][6][7] Chen Shengqian and Luo Hu, historical investigators in Dongzhi County, found the Hualong Cave in 2004,[8] or 2005.
The best specimen is an individual, coded HLD 6, represented by 11 fossil pieces of the skull, teeth and jaw bones.
It most resembles that of Zhoukoudian Peking Man (H. erectus), but the exact identity is unclear as it also shares features of archaic humans of the Middle to early Late Pleistocene of Europe.
[17] HLD 6, represented by 11 fossil parts belong to a single individual, is the most complete human remains in Hualong Cave.
[3][10] It possesses several common features with Asian archaic humans including a low and wide skull cup and nostril, as well as reduced or absent third molars.
[20] Report of the analysis of the facial skeleton in 2021 upheld that the flat face, poor prognathism, and nose bones are suggestive of a blend of archaic and modern human features.