Charcoal remnants found inside a brain case from the Red Deer Cave were dated using uranium-thorium dating, indicating that this individual lived between 17,830 and 13,290 years ago.

Researchers gave the group the name Red Deer People after the name of the cave in which the remains were found. Now, Chinese scientists have extracted genetic material from the skull cap and ...

"In short, they're anatomically unique among all members of the human evolutionary tree," added Curnoe, a co-author of the new study of the "Red Deer Cave people," published online today in the ...

The Red Deer Cave people’s bones, which suggest a very different appearance than modern man, were discovered in the Yunnan Province in 1989, but haven’t been studied until now. Some reviewing ...

In 2012, we announced the discovery of the ‘Red Deer Cave people’ in Southwest China, a mysterious human group we identified from cranial and jaw bones and teeth from two cave sites located in ...

At least three fossil specimens were uncovered in 1989 by miners quarrying limestone at Maludong or Red Deer Cave near the city of Mengzi in southwest China. They remained unstudied until 2008.

The 14,000 year old bone -- found among the remains of China's enigmatic 'Red Deer Cave people' -- has been shown to have features that resemble those of some of the most ancient members of the ...