Baishiya Karst Cave and Pleistocene highland occupation
Baishiya Karst Cave (白石崖溶洞)
Stratified deposits, animal processing, and cautiously identified hominin remains illuminate repeated use of a highland cave. Later religious significance must be respected alongside archaeological research.
Paisajes de tierras altas, comunidades e instituciones cambiantes
Mesetas, valles y paisajes regionales conectados
A northeastern plateau basin linked rock shelters, animal habitats, and water. Later sacred geography does not establish Pleistocene borders.
Organización política y escala comunitaria
Cooperative food processing and tool use are investigated; no named polity or governmental system is attested.
Transformación posterior, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna
Archaeological investigation and living religious stewardship concern the same place but different histories. No remains imagery or personal archaic-ancestry inference is included.
The 2019 study dated adhering carbonate.
The 2024 study examines modified faunal remains.
Different dated layers must not be collapsed into one community.
Una cronología breve y documentada
Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.
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Repeated cave use
The modeled stratigraphy records a long, discontinuous archaeological sequence.
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Mandible minimum age
Carbonate dating constrains the fossil without fixing every associated artifact.
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Later hominin evidence
A rib studied in 2024 extends the site-specific record; taxonomy remains an analytical result.
Hogares, trabajo, lengua, creencias y evidencias materiales
Idiomas mencionados en este perfil
- No directly attested Pleistocene language
Familia lingüística: Not recoverable from tools, proteins, or fossil taxonomy
Cut-marked fauna inform subsistence rather than a hierarchy of human worth.
Carbonate ages on the Xiahe mandible give a minimum age, not its exact moment of deposition.
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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página
Prefer accountable excavation teams, heritage authorities, academic inscription editions, institutional collections, and community-linked conservation projects. Registered sources are HTTPS and exclude Wikipedia. Royal, religious, colonial, and modern national narratives require attribution.
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Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau
Anke Hein, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer · Academic archaeological synthesis · 2018
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C2
Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave
Xia et al., Nature · Primary archaeological and proteomic study · 2024
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C3
New dating indicates intermittent human occupation of the Nwya Devu Paleolithic site on the high-altitude central Tibetan Plateau during the past 45,000 years
Ge et al., Science China Earth Sciences · Primary dating study · 2024
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C4
Comment on Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene
Zhang et al., Science · Published technical challenge to permanent-occupation interpretation · 2017
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C5
Foraging and farming: archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence for Neolithic exchange on the Tibetan Plateau
Ren et al., Antiquity · Primary plant and animal remains study · 2020
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C6
Old Tibetan Documents Online
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies · Academic manuscript and inscription editions · Texts of the seventh-twelfth centuries; current critical corpus
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C7
Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments
Austrian Academy of Sciences · Textual and architectural research project · Archived research project
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C8
Text, Art and Performance in Bon Ritual
University of Vienna, CIRDIS · Community-linked ritual and art research · 2012-2016 project
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C9
Preserving earthen architecture: Lessons learned from two case studies
Fuchs, Milchin and Krist, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports · Primary conservation research · 2024
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C10
The Sinja Valley Excavation in 2000 A.D.
Evans and Gibson with Acharya, Harward and Kunwar, Ancient Nepal 153; University of Cambridge archive · Primary Nepalese-Cambridge excavation report · 2003
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S1
A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau
Chen et al., Nature · Primary palaeoanthropological study · 2019
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S2
Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave
Xia et al., Nature · Primary archaeological and proteomic study · 2024
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S3
Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau
Zhang et al., Science · Primary stratigraphic study; no personal genetic inference · 2020
Revisión editorial: 19 octubre 2026