Some of the first modern humans to settle in East Asia more than 40,000 years ago ranged across the vast northern China Plateau for thousands of years. But sometime before the end of the last ice age, they vanished. ScienceMagArchives
Some of the first modern humans to settle in East Asia more than 40,000 years ago ranged across the vast northern China Plateau for thousands of years, where they hunted red deer and may have encountered Neanderthals and other archaic humans. But sometime before the end of the last ice age, they vanished. By 19,000 years ago,s—the hunter-gatherers who were the ancestors of today's East Asians, a new study of ancient genomes reveals.
The new study started with an ancient mystery. DNA from a male jawbone in Tianyuan Cave near Beijing proved that. They were still there 34,000 years ago, according to DNA from a female skullcap found in Mongolia's Salkhit Valley. But after that, their trail went cold: From 34,000 to 9000 years ago, the fossil record has a massive gap across the China Plateau, which extends from Mongolia to northern China and eastern Russia.
But by the end of the LGM, about 19,000 years ago, there were no genetic or fossil traces of this earlier population. DNA from a 19,000-year-old male in the study suggests a new group had appeared in the Amur region; he was more closely related to today's East Asian people than to the earlier modern human fossils.
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