1.   Until now, the only clearly identified, extinct human fossils found outside Africa have been of a species called Homo erectus.

2.   It is said to be the oldest and most complete human fossil ever found in Southeast Asia.

3.   Milford Wolpoff, a University of Michigan anthropologist who studies early human fossils, said fossils suggest an evolutionary link between Neanderthals and modern humans.

4.   Wolpoff said the buffalo teeth may have come from a different deposit and age than the human fossils, making the dates unreliable.