#longlin 1

One more hominid skull post, now it's Longlin 1 and Maludong 1, the cranium and mandible of one of the Red Deer Cave people, discovered in 1979. The Red Deer Cave people were a population from southwest China, anywhere from 11,500 to 14,300 years old, and of uncertain affinity to other hominids in the absence of (as yet) identifiable DNA. Proposed classifications range from anatomically modern Homo sapiens, to a late-surviving offshoot of much earlier species of Homo, with suggestions of Denisovan admixture as well. At any rate, it is the latest surviving hominid population that is not definitively AMH (anatomically modern human), outlasting the Neanderthals by at least 25,700 years.