Beijing, December 18, 2015, 09:29 – REGNUM Almost 26 years ago, archaeologists found in Guangxi (China) human remains from reindeer cave. Today it was announced that scientists from China and Australia have studied the femur and found that Homo habilis could survive to the present day almost in complete isolation (13th millennium BC). It is reported by the journal PLoS One.
According to the authors, it provides discovery suggests the coexistence of ancient and modern kinds of people on the mainland of East Asia.
«However, this discovery still needs to be confirmed by other bones» , – stressed the study’s authors.
IA REGNUM recalls in 1979 in the south of China in a cave Lunlin scientists have found human remains of deer cave, whose age has left from 11.5 to 14.3 thousand years. The femur was stored in the vaults of a local museum for over 25 years.
This year, the experts analyzed the fragments of the femur, causing found that, most likely, found 26 years ago, the remains belong to Homo habilis and earlier Homo erectus, that is, those species that were approximately half a million years ago.
It is worth noting that according to the scientists, the study of the thigh bone of hominid from deer cave showed that she was more primitive than even the bones of the skull: the mass of the human body has no more than 50 kilograms.
So, in 2009 the Australian and Chinese experts working, working with human bones from deer cave, they said that living in the area being not fit within the definition of Homo sapiens and perhaps belongs to a different species of the genus Homo. Such an assumption scientists expressed based on an analysis of the skull, but the statement has caused a lot of discontent in the region.
According to scientists, a habitat for endangered populations of the ancient people was the south-western part of China, as well as in the area of uplift of the Tibetan Plateau is a unique natural environment, the old could live here for a hundred years.
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