A new analysis, however, adds another piece to the Denisovan puzzle.
The identification provides the most compelling evidence yet that Denisovans lived across different habitats and adapted to diverse climates.
Because of the jawbones degradation, the team couldnt use direct dating techniques like uranium-series or radiocarbon dating.
The Denisovan jawbone.© Chun-Hsiang Chang, Jay Chang
Altogether, this evidence pointed to the two possible time windows.
One of the few things we know about Denisovans is that they interbred with both Neanderthals and modern humans.
Before the jawbones paleoproteomic analysis, however, Denisovan fossils had only ever been molecularly confirmed from northern Asia.
An artistic rendering of a Denisovan man. © Cheng-Han Sun.
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