Tam Pà Ling Cave yielded eight Homo sapiens bones over 4.5m sediment. Lowest leg bone fragment dates to 86,000-68,000 years old. Sediments accumulated steadily over 86,000 years. Luminescence dating used quartz top 3m, feldspar 4-7m, fine grains below. Cow teeth at 6.5m dated 56,000 years via U-series and ESR. Stalactite tip supports chronology. Micromorphology confirms layer integrity. Humans occupied site vicinity 56,000 years. Pushes Homo sapiens arrival in SE Asia earlier. Mainland route viable alongside coastal. Cobra Cave nearby has 150,000-year-old Denisovan tooth. Site on ancient hominin dispersal path.