 I think it’s going to go into the textbooks right away.”

The bone fragment, identified by the code DC1227 (GenBank Accession = KU131206) or as Densiova 11, is from a human arm or leg.Prior to extraction of material for genetic analysis, DC1227 weighed , and had maximum dimensions of by .In 2016, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, then used a small portion of the bone to isolate mitochondrial DNA, which was found to be fully Neanderthal, indicating she was the daughter of a Neanderthal woman.