Deer Cave People
As Red Deer Cave People ( "Red Deer Cave people"), a research group led by Australian anthropologist Darren referred Curnoe bones from the southern Chinese province of Yunnan , which in 2012 partly, partly on an age of 11,510 ± 255 to 14,500 to 13,000 calibrated were dated calendar years before present . In 2015, another femur that was kept in the Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics in Mengzi (Yunnan) and had not been investigated until then - the fossil MLDG 1678 - confirmed the dating to around 14,000 years.
discovery
The bone finds - skull fragments, individual teeth and some bones from the area below the head - were from 1979 in the eponymous cave Maludong (deer cave, Chinese 马鹿 洞 , Pinyin Mǎlùdòng ) in Yunnan and in a second cave near Longlin (Longlin Cave, Chinese 隆林 洞 , Pinyin Lónglíndòng ) discovered in Guangxi . They have a rather flat and broad face and a relatively narrow nasal bone.
The red deer cave got its name because, in addition to the hominine bones, numerous red deer bones were discovered there, apparently remains of the hunting prey of their former inhabitants.
Tribal history assignment
The bones were assigned to modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), but they may belong to a separate group of immigrants from Africa , previously known only from this region , who previously settled in the region separately from the immediate ancestors of today's Chinese; In addition to typical characteristics of Homo sapiens , the finds were ascribed characteristics of the archaic Homo sapiens and similarities with the finds from Zhirendong .
Since all attempts to obtain DNA from the hominine bones were unsuccessful, no statements on the relationship to other populations of Homo sapiens or Homo erectus were published in 2012 .
See also
literature
- Darren Curnoe, Xueping Ji, Wu Liu, Zhende Bao, Paul SC Taçon, Liang Ren: A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China. In: PLoS ONE. 10 (12), 2015: e0143332. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0143332
Individual evidence
- ↑ Darren Curnoe, Xueping Ji, Andy IR Herries, Kanning Bai, Paul SC Taçon et al .: Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians. In: PLoS ONE . Volume 7, No. 3, e31918, 2012, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0031918
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↑ Darren Curnoe et al .: A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China. In: PLoS ONE. Volume 10, No. 12, 2015: e0143332, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0143332
'Red Deer Cave people' bone points to mysterious species of pre-modern human. On: eurekalert.org from December 17, 2015, accessed on December 18, 2015
Hubert Filser: Urmensch auf Zeitreise. On: sueddeutsche.de from December 18, 2015.