Red Deer Cave people

As Deer Cave people ( "Red Deer Cave people" ) refers to a group of researchers at the Australian anthropologists Darren Cunroe bone finds from southern China which were 2012 dated partly an age of 11,510 ± 255 and partly on 14500-13000 calibrated calendar years before present. The bones were indeed the modern man (Homo sapiens) assigned, but they belong possibly to a separate, previously known only from this region grouping of immigrants from Africa, which colonized the region earlier and separated from the direct ancestors of modern Chinese; besides the typical features of Homo sapiens were the finds attributed to features of archaic Homo sapiens and similarities with the finds from Zhirendong.

Since all attempts to obtain DNA from the hominin bones were fruitless, 2012, no statement on the relationship with other populations of Homo sapiens or Homo erectus was published.

Discovery

The skeletal remains - the skull fragments, several teeth and some bones from the area below the head - were discovered in 1979 in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan in the eponymous cave Maludong ( Deer Cave) and in a second cave at Longlin in Guangxi. They have a rather flat and broad face and a relatively narrow nose.

The Deer cave got its name because there too many deer bones were found next to the hominin skeletal remains, evidently remains of the prey of her former inhabitants.