Nearly 40 years after it was found by a monk in a Chinese cave, a fossilized chunk of jawbone has been revealed as coming from a mysterious relative of the Neanderthals. - NBCNewsMACH
The new work was a long time in coming. The monk who found the fossil in 1980 gave it to a Buddhist leader, who passed it along to Lanzhou University in China. Study of it began in 2010.
Experts unconnected to the research agreed the fossil could help identify other remains as Denisovan. The Baishiya Karst Cave above the Jiangla riverbed in the Gansu province of China. It is both a locally famous Buddhist cave and a tourist site. According to a report, a jawbone fragment found in the cave is least 160,000 years old, and recovered proteins led scientists to conclude it came from a Denisovan, a relative of Neanderthals.The Nature paper points out similarities to a fossil jaw reported in 2015 that had been dredged by a fishing net off the coast of Taiwan.
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