At present, little is known about faunal community change on the Tibetan Plateau during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (Supplementary Information section1). Notably, we only identify extinct large carnivores (Crocutasp.) and megaherbivores (woolly rhinoceros (Coelodontasp.)) below layer 6 (Extended...
A late Middle Pleistocene mandible from Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) on the Tibetan Plateau has been inferred to be from a Denisovan, an Asian hominin related to Neanderthals, on the basis of an amino acid substitution in its collagen. Here we describe the stratigraphy, chronology, and ...
One year after the publication of research on the Xiahe mandible, the first Denisovan fossil found outside of Denisova Cave,the same research team has now reported their findings of Denisovan DNA from sediments of the Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) on the Tibetan Plateau where the Xiahe mandible...