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Researchers uncovered bones and stone tools inside a cave in China that belonged to Denisovans, an extinct human relative, spanning a period of roughly 120,000 years. The finds offer new physical evidence about the group's biology, diet, and daily life over an extended timeframe.
Researchers used ancient protein analysis to identify additional Denisovan skeletal remains from a site in Southwest China, expanding the known geographic and fossil record of this archaic human population. The study, published in Nature, builds on prior genetic and proteomic work that has traced Denisovans from Siberia's Denisova Cave to the Tibetan Plateau, Laos, Taiwan, and now southwestern China.
New ancient DNA analysis of the extinct predator long nicknamed the 'American cheetah' shows it was misclassified, revealing a different evolutionary lineage than previously assumed. The genetic evidence also sheds light on the animal's historical range and diet, correcting decades of assumptions based on skeletal comparisons alone.
Archaeologists at the University of South Carolina found traces of cacao DNA on pottery shards from an 11th-century feast at Etowah, a Mississippian mound city near present-day Atlanta. Since cacao trees only grow in tropical regions roughly 3,000 kilometers away, the discovery indicates the Mississippian people maintained extensive trade networks reaching into Central America.