DISCUSSION
The Liangdao skeleton and the dangers of overinterpretation

Robert Blust

Abstract 摘要
The first thing to note with regard to the discovery of the so-called ‘Liangdao man’ is that any recipe used to ‘cook up’ an interpretation of the human history of East and Southeast Asia based on this fragile foundation will require a large pinch of speculation. My purpose in entering this discussion is not to enlarge the compass of the speculations already advanced, but rather to rein them in with some reminders of things about which we have much better observational control.