Tianyuan man

Tianyuan man
50,000~40,000 BP Tianyuan man Niah man Ust' man Mousterian culture Proto- Aurignacian Deni- sova Kara- Bom Okladnikov Bacho Kiro Oase Emiran culture Shanidar Bhimbetka caves class=notpageimage| Tianyuan man and contemporary cultures c. 50,000~40,000

Tianyuan man (simplified Chinese: 田园洞人; traditional Chinese: 田園洞人; pinyin: Tiányuándòng Rén) are the remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit East Asia. In 2007, researchers found 34 bone fragments belonging to a single individual at the Tianyuan Cave near Beijing, China.^[1][2] Radiocarbon dating shows the bones to be between 42,000 and 39,000 years old, which may be slightly younger than the only other finds of bones of a similar age at the Niah Caves in Sarawak on the South-east Asian island of Borneo.