Since 2008, anthropologists have puzzled over who owned the remains of human bones from the late
They did not have enough collagen to support carbon dating. Therefore, their age could only be estimated from their surrounding features.
What is clear for sure is that whoever left them was a unique combination of archaic and more modern characteristics.
Perhaps, unlike older populationsHomo floresiensis, they were hardy human ancestors that survived in southeast Asia. Or perhaps they were a mixture of ancient and more modern people.
It is also possible that some hereditary traits have simply remained in their genes despite thousands of years of evolution.
The researchers sequenced the DNA they couldextract and map it according to the standard genomic reference model. The analysis showed that the inhabitants of the cave belong to the now defunct population of East Asians (the ancestors of modern Indians belonged to this population).
In particular, this is supported by the presencesimilarities between fragments of human DNA from the cave and the restored genomes of the ancient Indians who lived in Alaska or in the southwest of the modern USA about 11-12.5 thousand years ago. In this case, the inhabitants of this cave were much closer to the Indians than to other ancient inhabitants of East and Southeast Asia.
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