A previously unknown type of human may have been identified in southern China, who researchers say existed alongside modern man as recently as 11, 500 years ago.
The Red Deer Cave people’s bones, which suggest a very different appearance than modern man, were discovered in the Yunnan Province in 1989, but haven’t been studied until now. Some reviewing the findings even believe that these early people never really interbred with others and are unique among the members of the human evolutionary tree.
In 2012, the discovery of the ‘Red Deer Cave people’ in Southwest China, a mysterious human group were identified from cranial and jaw bones and teeth from two cave sites located in Southwest China.
Professor Ji Xueping of the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and involving colleagues from a range of institutions in China and Australia, announced the discovery of yet another highly unusual bone from the Red Deer Cave people. And it seems to confirm they were a mysterious group of pre-modern humans.
The features of their bones and teeth possess a remarkable number of similarities to archaic humans. This is despite them having lived only between about 14,000 and 11,000 years ago from radiocarbon dating of charcoal.
Their anatomy was nothing seen before in modern humans, whether they lived 200,000 or 200 years ago: they were truly unique and a real mystery.
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