The Denisovans or Denisova hominins are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. Denisovans are known from few physical remains, and, consequently, most of

Little is known of the precise anatomical features of the Denisovans since the only physical remains discovered so far are a finger bone, three teeth,

Analyses of modern humans genomes show past interbreeding with at least two groups of archaic humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans, and that

• Homo longi – Archaic human from China, 146,000 BP
• Homo luzonensis – Archaic human from Luzon, Philippines

Denisovans may represent a new species of Homo or archaic subspecies of Homo sapiens (modern humans), but they are known from too few

Denisovans are known to have lived in Siberia, Tibet, and Laos. The Xiahe mandible is the earliest recorded human presence on the Tibetan Plateau. Though their remains have been identified in only these three locations, traces of Denisovan DNA in modern humans

Denisova Cave
Early Middle Paleolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave were characterized by discoidal (disk-like) cores and Kombewa cores, but Levallois cores and flakes were also present. There were scrapers, denticulate tools,