The Harbin skull’s recent emergence, after thousands of years buried on a riverside and nearly a century hidden down a well, adds another intriguing piece to China’s Middle Pleistocene puzzle. It joins a number of other enigmatic fossils from populations that have resisted any easy identification, thought to have lived in transition between H. Erectus and H. sapiens. I think that the genetic data in this case is more reliable than the morphological data,” said Bence Viola, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toronto, who was not involved in the new study. Like its origins, the skull’s 20th-century story isn’t entirely clear. The family that donated the skull to co-author Ji Qiang, at Hebei GEO University’s museum, had been hiding it in a well for three generations. It was unearthed in the 1930s when a railway bridge was built along the Songhua River and the family, suspecting that it was important but unsure what to do with the fossil, had safeguarded the skull ever since. All of the specimens from East Asian in the Middle Pleistocene [from 770,000 to 126,000 years ago]—it’s possible that they all represent interbreeding. The people represented by Dragon Man likely didn’t disappear, but rather continued breeding with other early humans. Present-day humans in parts of East and Southeast Asia still have between 2 and 6 percent Denisovan DNA. Artist’s rendering of what Dragon Man’s face might have looked like. Schmitt says, based on Dragon Man’s cranial size, there’s no reason to doubt the people he represents were any more or less intelligent than contemporary humans. Humans living at that time were likely to use tools, which means they probably had culture—to make tools you generally need to learn those skills socially and pass those skills on to others. Photo courtesy of Zhao Chuang If the skull is Denisovan, what will that tell us about our evolutionary history?

Your energy system is altered so that you are able to start to channel information, frequencies and vibrations from your Dragon Skulls as well as learning how to look after and care for their presence. And because excavations in China haven’t been as extensive as those in places like Africa, experts are only beginning to uncover the evidence.It’s distinctive enough to be a different species,” said Christopher Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London and co-author of two of the three Dragon Man papers. In China, some ancient fossils have been found with interesting combinations of features that have sparked fierce debate about whether they belong to different species of human, so far unrecognised by science.

The Dragons take you on a guided meditation to connect with the Crystalline Dragon Consciousness so you can find out what work they are personally doing for you and with you at this time. Here she channels the Dragon Skulls to allow them to explain why they have come into being and also why they are connecting with so many people at this time. What comes next really depends on how well the skull is preserved. To get genomic data, we’d need to take a small piece of that skull, grind it up, and sequence it for DNA in a very carefully controlled setting to make sure the sample isn’t contaminated with DNA from contemporary humans. At 146,000 years old, it’s theoretically possible to get DNA out of it. If it was in a relatively warm, wet area, however, there might be less DNA preserved. But the original discovery of Denisovan DNA came from the fossil record—that tooth and pinky finger I mentioned—so I’m very optimistic that it’s possible. Having a full cranium is amazing, and I’m really happy they posted so many images of it so we can see what it looks like. At this point, paleoanthropologists have only just taken the first step of characterizing how this individual fits into human history. How might Dragon Man fit into that picture, given the initial characterization?The Harbin cranium was first found in 1933 in the city of the same name but was reportedly hidden in a well for 85 years to protect it from the Japanese army. For we are offering to be of great service in the next 13 years, to help humanity with their shift into the higher conscious awareness and to bring through deep healing at a soul level, for when you heal the soul the rest falls into place for healing. Adoni” Anka Dragon Skull

Dragon Man likely lived in a small band of hunter-gatherers, with a family or with multiple families living together. It’s really difficult to say what those family groups looked like. Were there bonded pairs of mates, or polyamorous groupings? Were they egalitarian? We’d really need to get more artifacts of material culture from that area to answer some of these questions. One of the most fascinating things about the discovery of Dragon Man is that it was found at the bottom of a well after being hidden there nearly 80 years ago. Is this as unusual as it seems to me, or is this sort of treasure stashing something that archaeologists often come across? Mark Maslin, a professor of earth system science at UCL and the author of The Cradle of Humanity, said: “The beautifully preserved Chinese Harbin archaic human skull adds even more evidence that human evolution was not a simple evolutionary tree but a dense intertwined bush. We now know that there were as many as 10 different species of hominins at the same time as our own species emerged. The researchers believe the skull belonged to a male, about 50 years old, who would have been an impressive physical specimen. His wide, bulbous nose allowed him to breathe huge volumes of air, indicating a high-energy lifestyle, while sheer size would have helped him withstand the brutally cold winters in the region. “Homo longi is heavily built, very robust,” said Prof Xijun Ni, a paleoanthropologist at Hebei. “It is hard to estimate the height, but the massive head should match a height higher than the average of modern humans.” a b c Chen, F.; Welker, F.; Shen, C.-C.; etal. (2019). "A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau" (PDF). Nature. 569 (7756): 409–412. Bibcode: 2019Natur.569..409C. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1139-x. PMID 31043746. S2CID 141503768.

According to Ni et al. 2021 [1] (note, Xiahe and Denisovans are most closely related to Neanderthals according to nDNA and ancient protein analyses. [5]) In 2019, scientists announced the discovery of a fractured jaw on the Tibetan Plateau that likely came from a Denisovan, which would make the bone the first fossil of these ancient humans found outside the cave that gives the group its name. More than 100,000 years ago, several human species coexisted across Eurasia and Africa, including our own, Neanderthals and Denisovans, a recently discovered sister species to Neanderthals. “Dragon man” might now be added to that list. The team speculates that some of the skull’s robust traits reflect adaptations to a much colder climate. The environment may have also isolated the Dragon Man and its kin from other hominins, Petraglia says, which could have driven some of the distinctiveness seen in the fossil today.