Protein extraction Proteins were extracted from bone powder of Xujiayao hominin samples and animal samples from the same layer (Supplementary Tables 1 and 9) using previously published methods61,62. All sample preparations were performed using personal protective equipment in the dedicated clean room for ancient protein analysis in the Molecular Paleontology Laboratory, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Archaeological site and samples Bianfu Cave (26° 27′ 43.65′′ N, 100° 09′ 55.45′′ E) is in Heqing County, western Yunnan Province in southwestern China, approximately 2 km south of the Yinhe River, a secondary tributary of the Yangtze River (Fig. 1a). In 2019, the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other cooperative institutes conducted excavations on this site. The stratigraphy
