Tianyuan man (simplified Chinese: 田园洞人; traditional Chinese: 田園洞人; pinyin: Tiányuán Dòng Rén) are the remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit eastern Asia. Researchers found 34 bone fragments belonging to a single individual at the Tianyuan Cave, near Beijing, China.^[1] Radiocarbon dating shows the bones to be between 42,000 and 39,000 years old. This may be slightly younger than the only other finds of bones of a similar age at the Niah Caves in Sarawak on Borneo.

Isotope analysis suggests that a substantial part of the diet of these individuals came from freshwater fish.^[2]

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