Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China

ABSTRACT: Two parietal and one radius fragmentary hominin bones were identified from a systematical morphological prescreening of ~60,000 mammalian bone fragments and subsequent ZooMS analysis at Bianfu Cave in Yunan, Southwest China. Combined with two hominin teeth discovered during the excavation, all the five hominin specimens were attributed to Denisovans though shotgun palaeoproteomic analyses, SAP assignment and phylogenetic analyses.

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ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Bone, Tooth

SUBMITTER: Xiao Wang  

LAB HEAD: Qiaomei Fu

PROVIDER: PXD073112 | Pride | 2026-07-24

REPOSITORIES: Pride