History with Kayleigh | New Species Of Humans? Homo Longi / Dragon Man @HistoryWithKayleigh | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The skull is known under 2 different names, the Harbin Cranium and the Dragon Man Skull.
It’s proposed that this skull belongs to a new species, known as Homo longi, but there are many anthropologists that believe the skull belongs to a Denisovan.
All the way back in the 1930’s there was a construction of a bridge in the Heilongjiang Province of China near the Harbin City.
The Heilongjiang Province is often called the Long Jiang, this literally means Dragon River and this is where the name Dragon man comes from and it’s also why the species currently bears the name of Homo longi.
The man who discovered the skull hid it in a well, unbeknownst to the rest of the world and when he was on his death bed he revealed its location, therefore it was recovered in 2018 and subsequently analysed.
Part of the team that analysed the skull was Xijun Ni, from the Department of Palaeomammalogy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he said that this was one of the most complete crania he had ever seen, an amazing discovery and it’s also among the largest Homo skull ever found.
The skull falls within the range of Neanderthal and Homo spaiens skulls that were found and is quite a bit larger than the skulls of Homo erectus, Homo naledi, Homo floresiensis and even bigger than some of the skulls of Homo heidelbergensis.
This last fact was corroborated by Palaeoanthropologist Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum of London, who was a member of the research team as well.
The team that researched the skull estimate that it belonged to a man of approximately 50 years of age, who lived somewhere between 146,000 and 296,000 years ago.
The researchers used sophisticated geometrical analysis, including strontium isotopic ratios and X-ray fluorescence dating methods among others, and they were able to date for certain that the skull has to be at least 146,000 years old, placing it in the middle Pleistocene, which is known as one of the dynamic era’s of migrations of archaic humans.
The cranial features are a mix of archaic and modern humans, large eye sockets and thick brow ridges like we see in Neanderthals but the face itself looks like the bigger version of Homo sapiens with a brain size equal to that of modern humans.
The cheekbones are flat and low with a shallow canine cavity, the face itself seems reduced and tucked under the brain case.
These morphological details are critical for understanding the evolution of the Homo genus and the origins of us, Homo sapiens and how they interbred with the Denisovans and Neanderthals.
#DragonManSkull #HomoLongi #NewHumanSpecies
Music: Adrian von Ziegler
Sources:researchgate.net/publication/352778392_Massive_cranium_from_Haibin_in_northeastern_China_establishes_a_new_Middle_Pleistocene_human_lineage
researchgate.net/publication/354198754_Late_Middle_Pleistocene_Harbin_cranium_represents_a_new_Homo_species
https://scientias.nl/nieuwe-mensachtige-ontdekt-die-nog-nauwer-aan-ons-verwant-lijkt-te-zijn-dan-de-neanderthaler/
leakeyfoundation.org/homo-longi-extinct-human-species-that-may-replace-neanderthals-as-our-closest-relatives-found-in-china
discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/homo-longi-extinct-human-species-that-may-replace-neanderthals-as-our
sci-news.com/archaeology/homo-longi-09804.html
newscientist.com/article/2282223-dragon-man-claimed-as-new-species-of-ancient-human-but-doubts-remain
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The skull is known under 2 different names, the Harbin Cranium and the Dragon Man Skull.
It’s proposed that this skull belongs to a new species, known as Homo longi, but there are many anthropologists that believe the skull belongs to a Denisovan.
All the way back in the 1930’s there was a construction of a bridge in the Heilongjiang Province of China near the Harbin City.
The Heilongjiang Province is often called the Long Jiang, this literally means Dragon River and this is where the name Dragon man comes from and it’s also why the species currently bears the name of Homo longi.
The man who discovered the skull hid it in a well, unbeknownst to the rest of the world and when he was on his death bed he revealed its location, therefore it was recovered in 2018 and subsequently analysed.
Part of the team that analysed the skull was Xijun Ni, from the Department of Palaeomammalogy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he said that this was one of the most complete crania he had ever seen, an amazing discovery and it’s also among the largest Homo skull ever found.
The skull falls within the range of Neanderthal and Homo spaiens skulls that were found and is quite a bit larger than the skulls of Homo erectus, Homo naledi, Homo floresiensis and even bigger than some of the skulls of Homo heidelbergensis.
This last fact was corroborated by Palaeoanthropologist Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum of London, who was a member of the research team as well.
The team that researched the skull estimate that it belonged to a man of approximately 50 years of age, who lived somewhere between 146,000 and 296,000 years ago.
The researchers used sophisticated geometrical analysis, including strontium isotopic ratios and X-ray fluorescence dating methods among others, and they were able to date for certain that the skull has to be at least 146,000 years old, placing it in the middle Pleistocene, which is known as one of the dynamic era’s of migrations of archaic humans.
The cranial features are a mix of archaic and modern humans, large eye sockets and thick brow ridges like we see in Neanderthals but the face itself looks like the bigger version of Homo sapiens with a brain size equal to that of modern humans.
The cheekbones are flat and low with a shallow canine cavity, the face itself seems reduced and tucked under the brain case.
These morphological details are critical for understanding the evolution of the Homo genus and the origins of us, Homo sapiens and how they interbred with the Denisovans and Neanderthals.
#DragonManSkull #HomoLongi #NewHumanSpecies
Music: Adrian von Ziegler
Sources:researchgate.net/publication/352778392_Massive_cranium_from_Haibin_in_northeastern_China_establishes_a_new_Middle_Pleistocene_human_lineage
researchgate.net/publication/354198754_Late_Middle_Pleistocene_Harbin_cranium_represents_a_new_Homo_species
https://scientias.nl/nieuwe-mensachtige-ontdekt-die-nog-nauwer-aan-ons-verwant-lijkt-te-zijn-dan-de-neanderthaler/
leakeyfoundation.org/homo-longi-extinct-human-species-that-may-replace-neanderthals-as-our-closest-relatives-found-in-china
discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/homo-longi-extinct-human-species-that-may-replace-neanderthals-as-our
sci-news.com/archaeology/homo-longi-09804.html
newscientist.com/article/2282223-dragon-man-claimed-as-new-species-of-ancient-human-but-doubts-remain
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