Zlatý kůň woman

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Zlatý kůň woman
Skeletal remains
Common nameZlatý kůň woman
SpeciesHuman
Age43,000 years
Place discoveredKoněprusy, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia
Date discovered1950
Location of the Zlatý kůň fossil, with an age of at least ~43,000 years, which has yielded genome-wide data.

The Zlatý kůň woman is the fossil of an ancient woman, an

Early European modern human, dated to circa 43,000 BP. She was discovered in the Koněprusy Caves in the Czech Republic
in 1950.

The Zlatý kůň woman is either associated with non-Mousterian and non-Initial Upper Paleolithic cultures or with early IUP-like cultures, one of the earliest cultures of modern humans in Europe, which expanded into Eurasia more than 45,000 years ago, following their dispersal out of Africa.[1][2][3] On the basis of genetic dating, the Zlatý kůň individual is believed to be the oldest anatomically modern human ever to be genetically sequenced. Her genome represents a deeply splitting lineage basal to the subsequent split between East Eurasians and West Eurasians.[4]

These early Eurasian populations probably mated with

Neanderthals in the period between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, probably during the initial phase of their expansion in the Middle East, and they carried ~2–9% Neanderthal ancestry in their genomes.[5] It is also considered that the early modern humans coexisted with Neanderthals in Europe for a period of about 3,000–5,000 years.[1] The Zlatý kůň woman had a small amount of Neanderthal admixture, going back 70 or 80 generations.[5]

These people do not appear to have been the ancestors of later Europeans, as the very few ancient DNA samples recovered from this period are not related to later samples.[6] The Zlatý kůň woman also has contributed genetically neither to later Europeans nor to Asians.[1]


Oase
Initial Upper Paleolithic wave
"East-Eurasian"
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Phylogenetic position of ancient Upper Paleolithic Eurasian specimens.

Among the earliest modern humans that have been directly dated to this period are:[7]

  • an individual from 46,000 to 44,000 years ago in the Bacho Kiro cave, located in present-day Bulgaria;
  • a 45,000-year-old
    Ust'-Ishim
    man (no continuity with later Eurasians);
  • a 40,000-year-old Tianyuan man, who is more closely related to modern Asians and Native Americans;
  • Oase 1
    (no shared ancestry with later Eurasians);
  • Fumane 2, circa 40,000 BP.

References

  1. ^
    PMID 33828249
    .
  2. S2CID 218592678
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  3. ^ Bower, Bruce (11 May 2020). "The earliest known humans in Europe may have been found in a Bulgarian cave". Science News.
  4. PMID 35445261
    . Zlatý Kůň can be described as a putative early expansion from the population formed after the major expansion OoA and hybridization with Neanderthals, and could be linked with non-Mousterian and non-IUP cultures found in Europe 48–45 ka or with IUP.
  5. ^
    PMID 36009790
    . A similarly recent hybridization event (six or seven generations earlier) has been inferred from aDNA of early modern humans at Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria, around 45.9–42.6 Ka [39], while a somewhat more distant event (70–80 generations earlier) has been recognized in the genome of a >45 Ka-old cranium from Zlatý kůň in Czechia
  6. S2CID 257282687
    .
  7. PMID 33828249
    . A complete genome has been produced from the ~45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim, a Siberian individual who showed no genetic continuity to later Eurasians. This contrasts with the ~40,000-year-old East Asian individual from Tianyuan, whose genome is more closely related to many present-day Asians and Native Americans than to Europeans. From Europe, only the partial genome of an individual called Oase 1 and dated to ~40 ka has been recovered, and this showed no evidence of shared ancestry with later Europeans

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