Penghu 1

Penghu 1
Penghu 1 on display
Common namePenghu 1
SpeciesDenisovan ( Homo sp. )
Agec. 100,000 years
Place discoveredTaiwan Strait, Pacific Ocean
Date discoveredbefore 2008

Penghu 1 is a fossil jaw (mandible) belonging to an extinct hominin species of the genus Homo. It was collected from seafloor sediments of the Penghu Channel off the coast of Taiwan, dating to sometime in the Middle Pleistocene or Late Pleistocene. The classification of the mandible was historically disputed. Some believed it to be the fossil of a H. erectus, an archaic Human or possibly a Denisovan. Analysis of protein sequences in 2025 confirmed that the mandible represented that of a male Denisovan.

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