Tianyuan man
Tianyuan man (Chinese: t 田園洞人, s 田园洞人, p Tiányuándòng Rén) are the remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit eastern Asia. In 2007, researchers found 34 bone fragments belonging to a single individual at the Tianyuan Cave near Beijing, China.[1] Radiocarbon dating shows the bones to be between 42,000 and 39,000 years old, which may be slightly younger than the only other finds of bones of a similar age at the Niah Caves in Sarawak on Borneo.
Isotope analysis suggests that a substantial part of the diet of these individuals came from freshwater fish.[2]
He was DNA-tested in 2013 (haplogroup B), which revealed that he has ancestral relation "to many present-day Asians and Native Americans",[3][4][5][6][7] "but had already diverged genetically from the ancestors of present-day Europeans".[4]
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