Posted on 07/14/2024 1:28:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a Science Magazine report, Huan Xia of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Frido Welker of the University of Copenhagen identified a Denisovan rib bone found in Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau among the remains of yaks, deer, hyenas, wolves, snow leopards, golden eagles, pheasants, and bharal, an animal also known as the blue sheep. The identification of the hominin rib was made through the analysis of proteins in its collagen with zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry, or ZooMS. The amino acid sequences in the rib were determined to be a close match to those found in the remains of a Denisovan girl who lived in Siberia’s Altai Mountains some 50,000 years ago. Many of the animal bones in the study bore cut marks likely made by stone tools found in the same layers of the cave, which indicates that Denisovans processed the animals for their meat, marrow, and hides, and may have made tools from some of the bones. The Denisovan rib has been dated to between 48,000 and 32,000 years ago, when modern humans also lived in the region. Modern Tibetans are known to carry a gene variant, thought to have been inherited from Denisovans, that helps them to breathe at high elevations. The researchers suggest that this contact between Denisovans and modern humans may have occurred on the Tibetan Plateau.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
Here's a first and last -- a GGG digest ping message about someone who is historic, but isn't ready to be history just yet.
And this photo link is to a topic based on something in the freakin' Daily Beast! Never saw that coming!
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The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha:
Will make a great statue to be discovered a thousand years from now :)
I see ou’re still rocking n rolling.
i’’m glad :)
:^)
I looked up the weather for 50K years ago and it was generally a touch cooler than today, but close.
Why would people live in Tibet when they could live elsewhere? somewhere warmer...
https://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.html
By around 60,000-55,000 years ago, conditions around the world had become warmer, though still generally colder than today. The ice melted back partially, and there followed a long ‘middling’ phase in which the climate oscillated between warmer and colder conditions, often in sudden jumps. During some parts of this phase, conditions in the tropics may have been moister than they are at present, and at other times they were drier. Generally, the mid-latitude zones seem to have been drier than present, with cold steppe and wooded steppe instead of forests.
Maybe they had to leave where they'd been living because of incursions, or, maybe they were once so numerous they just expanded into every nook and cranny. Doesn't mean they were numerous in Tibet. :^) They probably were good at making warm clothing. Or, maybe this was a captive of whomever else lived there at the time, raided out of his or her home.
Frido Welker of the University of Copenhagen
Related to Frodo? Looking for his Hobbit ancestors?
Obvious nonsense, there are zero known Denisovan skulls thus far.
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