Lower Mandible (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Lower Mandible

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This is the lower mandible of the 40,000-year-old human skeleton, found in the Tianyuan Cave near Beijing. Analyses of collagen extracted from this bone prove that this individual was a regular consumer of fish.

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Image: Hong Shang / Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

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