2021-06-28 04:50:41 GMT2021-06-28 12:50:41(Beijing Time) Sina English
A skull preserved almost perfectly for more than 140,000 years in northeastern China represents a new species of ancient people more closely related to us than even Neanderthals – and could fundamentally alter our understanding of human evolution, scientists have said.
It belonged to a large-brained male in his 50s with deep-set eyes and thick brow ridges. With a wide face, it had flat, low cheekbones that made him resemble modern people more closely than other extinct members of the human family tree.
The research team has linked the specimen to other Chinese fossil findings and is calling the species Homo longi or Dragon Man, a reference to the region where it was discovered.
New species could be closest human ancestor: scientists
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Dragon Man skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree
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New Thoughts on Neanderthal Range and Tool Use - Archaeology Magazine
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New Thoughts on Neanderthal Range and Tool Use
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
JENA, GERMANY According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, an international team of scientists has conducted a new analysis of a tooth and tools unearthed in 1928 in Shukbah Cave, which is located in the Judaean Mountains. The artifacts had been held in a private collection until recently. Clément Zanolli of the University of Bordeaux explained that the molar belonged to a Neanderthal child of about nine years of age, making the cave the southernmost known Neanderthal site. It was previously thought that the type of stone tools found with the tooth were only used by modern humans. Jimbob Blinkhorn of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History added that the presence of these types of tools, known as Nubian Levallois technology, can therefore no longer be used to track modern human migrations in southwest Asia in the absence of fossils.