Xiahe mandible: photograph

PhotographCC BY-SA 4.0Found by a monk in 1980; at least 160 ka (U-series on carbonate)Copy of Xiahe mandible

Right half of a lower jaw with two molars, found in Baishiya Karst Cave and given to the Sixth Gung-Thang Living Buddha, who passed it to scientists at Lanzhou University. The first Denisovan fossil found outside Denisova Cave.

Dongju Zhang, 1980. CC BY-SA 4.0

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PhotographDongju Zhang · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 4.01 step from the original

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Where it was made

Baishiya Karst Cave, Xiahe, Gansu · Cave

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A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan PlateauSRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Xiahe mandible: photograph [Copy CPY0CZKZQD07YMJ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/CPY0CZKZQD07YMJ

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
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