Incredible human jaw with very large teeth dredged up by fisherman off the coast of Taiwan. It is thought to be 200,000 years old, and could belong to a previously unknown proto-human population, scientists suggest. Officially, the only hominin species present in East Asia at this time was Homo erectus. However, the jaw is not thought to belong to this species. Another exciting prospect is that it belongs to a Denisovan, a type of hominin known to have existed in Central and Eastern Asia around 40,000-50,000 years ago and arguably present hundreds of thousands of years earlier. Denisovans, whose existence has only recently been established, had large teeth, as two molars found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia show. Last year I put forward the theory that the American giant skeletons of so-named Nephilim found in their hundreds at Native American mound sites are Denisovan-human hybrids, something that is now taking off in a big way. So does this new jaw belong to a Denisovan? I am sure Dr Svante Paabo and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig are in Taiwan right now taking samples for immediate DNA testing, and then well know the answer. Any more on this story that you see, please let me know.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:23:12 +0000
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