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🗓️ 3 December 2020
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0:27.0 | I'm Christopher and Tagata. |
0:29.0 | Much like modern humans, the Neanderthals roamed widely throughout Europe. |
0:33.6 | We know this because they left behind extensive evidence, usually bones or tools. |
0:38.0 | But their cousins, the Denisovans, are more mysterious. |
0:40.8 | Until recently, they were conclusively linked only to a single cave in southern Siberia called Denisova Cave which lies between Kazakhstan and Mongolia. |
0:50.0 | In that cave scientists had found a finger bone, three teeth, and a piece of skull, |
0:54.1 | which tipped them off to the existence of a whole new lineage of ancient human. |
0:58.2 | Now scientists have uncovered more of the range of the Denisovins, says Deendo Masilani of the Max Planck Institute in Germany. |
1:05.2 | His team turned up evidence the ancient humans occupied a high mountain cave on the Tibetan |
1:09.4 | plateau called Baishia Cave. |
1:12.1 | The cave belongs to monks and monks thinks that it's a very holy place. |
1:17.0 | In fact, a monk found a piece of jawbone there in 1980, |
1:21.0 | which has been tenuously linked to the Denisovans. |
1:23.0 | But Masilani and his team have now unearthed more conclusive evidence |
1:27.0 | by sifting through cave sediments and sequencing the genetic evidence |
1:30.0 | the Denisovans left behind. |
1:32.0 | Body decay or people just being there on the site like bleeding there or pooping peeing there, they could left their DNA. |
1:41.0 | The DNA appears in layers, suggesting that Denisovans |
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