Here is my reconstruction of a male Homo longi (or “Dragon Man”), based on a 146,000-year old hominin skull found in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. The researchers who examined it believe it may represent a “sister species” to Homo sapiens, meaning it would be more closely related to modern humans than other hominins of late Pleistocene Eurasia such as the Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Given the far northerly location of the site where the “Dragon Man” specimen was found, it’s possible that he had lighter skin than what I have chosen here (depending on how long its ancestors had inhabited the region after they diverged from modern humans in Africa, of course). However, since most other paleoartists have been depicting him as light-skinned, I wanted to make my portrayal of it stand out by giving him a darker complexion.
Actually its appearance is unkown. And many researchers now suggest that its likely Denisovan. But despite this its taxonomic status still remains unclear.