goodnews.ws www.studiocreativity.com blogone.biz Mystery human fossils put spotlight on China. Credits photos: The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Captions: 1. The view east from Maludong. Darren Curnoe 2. Darren Curnoe (right) and Andy Herries (left) excavating at Maludong in 2008. Darren Curnoe 3. Darren Curnoe (left) and Ji Xueping (right) studying the Longlin skull in 2010 4. A Maludong partial cranium. Darren Curnoe 5. Deer bones recovered from Maludong including some burnt by the Red Deer Cave people. Darren Curnoe 6. The skulls of Red Deer Cave people suggest some key differences compared with humans. Darren Curnoe 7. The Red Deer Cave people and humans could be part of different evolutionary lines. Peter Schouten Fossils from two caves in south-west China have revealed a previously unknown Stone Age people and give a rare glimpse of a recent stage of human evolution with startling implications for the early peopling of Asia.The fossils are of a people! with a highly unusual mix of archaic and modern anatomical features and are the youngest of their kind ever found in mainland East Asia. Dated to just 14500 to 11500 years old, these people would have shared the landscape with modern-looking people at a time when China's earliest farming cultures were beginning, says an international team of scientists led by Associate Professor Darren Curnoe, of the University of New South Wales, and Professor Ji Xueping of the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and ...
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