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Denisova Cave

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There was an ornate bracelet found in the cave that is 30,000 years old.  The Denisovian genes are more recently related to Neanderthal than modern humans and indicated that they are a separate species from both Neanderthals and humans.

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Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave (Денисова пещера, also Ayu-Tash) is a cave in the Bashelaksky Range of the Altai mountains, Siberia, Russia. The cave is of great paleoarchaeological and paleontological interest. Bone fragments of the Denisova hominin, sometimes called the "X woman" (referring to the maternal descent of mitochondrial DNA) originate from the cave, including artifacts dated to ~40,000 BP. The cave is located in a region thought to have been inhabited concurrently in the past byNeanderthals and modern humans.

References

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisova Cave
  • New Scientist, v. 220, Issue 2944, p. 36-40. 
  • Page 199 - Tattersall, I., 2015, The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and other Cautinary Tales from Human Evolution: Palgrae Macmillan, 244p.
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