Denisovan fossils in China reveal an ancient ‘hunting paradise’
Denisovan remains discovered in southwestern China reveal that Yunnan province’s warm, biodiverse plateau was a “hunting paradise” for the hominins during a global glacial period, according to new research published in the journal Nature. Within the region’s coniferous forests and forest-steppe environments, this archaic human group established a stable subsistence pattern highly adapted to local…
Denisovan fossils discovered in Yunnan, China, have revealed that the region's warm, biodiverse plateau served as a "hunting paradise" for the archaic human group during a global glacial period, according to new research published in the journal Nature. The findings, detailed in two overlapping papers, establish Bianfu Cave as the site of the most abundant Denisovan remains outside of Denisova Cave in Siberia, providing critical insights into the species' appearance, evolution, and behavior.
The research fills a significant geographic gap in understanding the distribution of Denisovans, a more recent addition to the human family tree, and supports the hypothesis that the group once existed widely across Asia, particularly in the southeast.
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