Who were the #Denisovans? The ancient humans, who lived at an abandoned quarry in southwestern China for at least 30,000 years, crafted bone tools similar to those of the #Neanderthals, and were skilled hunters. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

🏺 🧪 🦣 Very cool, at this stage in our knowledge every new site is genuinely impactful.
I'm not sure we can make predictions about precision of technological capabilities from a piece of forearm, but these (v. nice) lithics are what I'd expect from the wide range we see in #Neanderthals

Hope the rancid pensioner armed with walking Aid & shoving his hand around the victim’s throat gets a knock on his Reform Conference Hotel room door this morning from the police #VAWG #Misogyny #Animals #Neanderthals

So, what is it all about?
Why did Homo sapiens prevail over the course of #humanhistory, while other human groups such as #Neanderthals disappeared? What roles did climate & environment, technological advances & encounters between different populations play?
This is where the project comes in.