Extinct humans survived on the Tibetan plateau for 160,000 years

[alanw]

Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans [Denisovans] survived here for many millennia, according to a new study published in Nature.

Extinct humans survived on the Tibetan plateau for 160,000 years

Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many millennia.

www.sciencedaily.com

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans [Denisovans] survived here for many millennia, according to a new study published in Nature.

Extinct humans survived on the Tibetan plateau for 160,000 years

Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many millennia.

www.sciencedaily.com

Wow that's amazing, I just read this, Denisovan's that's an phenomenal Archaeological find.

Thanks for sharing

 

[langcliffe]

According to Wikipedia, "Tibetan people received an advantageous EGNL1 and EPAS1 gene variant, associated with haemoglobin concentration and response to hypoxia, for life at high altitudes from the Denisovans." This, of course, includes the Sherpa people from the Solukhumba region of Nepal.

 

[oldfart]

Yeti?

 

[mikem]

Denisovans may also have reached North America...

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

According to Wikipedia, "Tibetan people received an advantageous EGNL1 and EPAS1 gene variant, associated with haemoglobin concentration and response to hypoxia, for life at high altitudes from the Denisovans." This, of course, includes the Sherpa people from the Solukhumba region of Nepal.

I never knew that, but it explains why some get altitude sickness and some don't, you see those sherpas and they carry cookers and everything up those mountains and have been known to carry people down from the mountains, I have always found this very interesting.

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

Denisovans may also have reached North America...

I wonder if they where in North America, was there people Homo-Sapiens, or Neanderthals living in North America before they got there or if the Denisovans where there first.

 

[langcliffe]

I wonder if they where in North America, was there people Homo-Sapiens, or Neanderthals living in North America before they got there or if the Denisovans where there first.

As far as I am aware, there is no fossil or archaeological evidence that the Denisovans reached North America.

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

As far as I am aware, there is no fossil or archaeological evidence that the Denisovans reached North America.

Thank you for clearing that up, i had been searching to possibly find any correlation, but you eloquently explained there are no North American archaeological evidence of this yet, explains why i couldn't find anything of it.

Thank You,
Much Appreciated
SDC

 

[Lankyman]

I wonder if they where in North America, was there people Homo-Sapiens, or Neanderthals living in North America before they got there or if the Denisovans where there first.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that a small number of Neanderthals clung on in the Mendip Hills until quite recently ... ?

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

Anecdotal evidence suggests that a small number of Neanderthals clung on in the Mendip Hills until quite recently ... ?

Very fascinating, I just found this article that talks of archaeological finds of remains that where discovered in Brownes Hole in Somerset.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/human-remains-found-somerset-cave-8134861

They also mention that we had hyaenas, i never knew that, they also found a Homo-Sapiens jawbone in Kents cavern, this is very interesting thank you for letting me know

 

[Andy Farrant]

Very fascinating, I just found this article that talks of archaeological finds of remains that where discovered in Brownes Hole in Somerset.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/human-remains-found-somerset-cave-8134861

They also mention that we had hyaenas, i never knew that, they also found a Homo-Sapiens jawbone in Kents cavern, this is very interesting thank you for letting me know

The radiocarbon dating of the human bones from Stoke Lane Slocker and Brownes' Hole were funded by the British Cave Research Association via the CSTRF Grant scheme, and the results published in Cave and Karst Science Vol 50(3), see Chamberlain and Mullan (2023), "Radiocarbon dates on human bone from two Mendip caves", https://bcra.org.uk/pub/candks/index.html?j=150. The results indicate both of the cranial specimens from Stoke Lane Slocker proved to be Early Bronze Age in date, and the human femur from Brownes' Hole was found to date from the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age. So the human remains are much younger than the hyaena den fauna.

 

[Chocolate fireguard]

Anecdotal evidence suggests that a small number of Neanderthals clung on in the Mendip Hills until quite recently ... ?

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