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New DNA tests on ancient Denisovan people shows them occupying Altai cave 170,000 years ago
It has been called the cave that holds the key to man's origins, and it keeps producing more surprises. It was here in the Deinsova Cave in 2008 that Siberian scientists discovered a finger bone fragment of 'X woman', a juvenile female believed to have lived around 41,000 years ago. Analysis showed she was genetically distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans.
ancient-origins - 16/09/2015 - 14:41
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10 of the World’s Oldest Languages Still Used Today
... of this are the oldest languages of remote tribes of Siberia and the Far East of Russia. This is a truly enormous ... phenomenon that shows us the diversity of the wild Siberia. Paleo-Siberian languages include: the Ket language, ... languages predate by far the dominant languages of modern Siberia, like Russian, Tungusic, and Turkic languages. Even ...
Aleksa Vučković - 17/02/2020 - 13:56
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Finger Bone Points the Way to Revealing Denisovan DNA Secrets
... Denisova Cave , an ancient archaeological site in southern Siberia, discovered fossils of a previously unknown group of ... would agree that this impact affected south and east of Siberia to the as far west as the Atlantic coast of Europe, ...
ashley cowie - 05/09/2019 - 23:14
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DNA Study Suggests Early Neanderthals Had Europe As Their Homebase
... of two Neanderthals that lived in Denisova cave in Siberia, one who had lived 90,000 years ago and the other ... Europe than to a roughly contemporaneous individual from Siberia. That the Hohlenstein-Stadel and Scladina individuals ... than the population that had used the same cave in Siberia 30,000 years before them. This suggests that the ...
Alicia McDermott - 27/06/2019 - 19:05
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Decade of DNA Analysis Reveals Astonishing Truths About Our Past
... genetic evidence linking people who lived in what is now Siberia 24,000 years ago with both Native Americans and ... been discovered by Russian archaeologists in south-central Siberia in the 1920s. Genetic Links Between Siberia and the Americas The boy was shown to have belonged ...
Nathan Falde - 17/06/2021 - 15:03
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New Shocking Clues Into Human Origins From Qesem Cave
... Asia to places like the Denisova Cave in southern Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau in what is now northwest ... are two distinct types of Denisovan. One branch existed in Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia, northern China and ... adopted by the earliest modern humans to reach places like Siberia, Tibet and Mongolia. Instead they and their hybrid ...
Andrew Collins - 14/10/2019 - 14:06
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Female Amazon warrior buried 2,500 years ago in Altai Mountains was... male
By The Siberian Times reporter
ancient-origins - 02/12/2015 - 00:13
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Oldest-known Human genome sequence sheds light on interbreeding with Neanderthals
... the DNA results from a 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia, producing the oldest genome sequence ever carried ... Irtysh near the settlement of Ust’-Ishim in western Siberia. The human femur was sent to the Max Planck Institute ... as that achieved for modern-day samples. The River Irtysh, Siberia. (Wikimedia Commons) The results of the sequencing ...
aprilholloway - 26/10/2014 - 01:22
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Six Amazing Ancient Tattoo Discoveries
Getting inked has been around longer than you’d think. While the idea of tattooing certainly seems like it would’ve been a more recent development, archaeologists have discovered quite the opposite. Tattooing has a long history that likely goes back more than 10,000 years! Just in the last few hundred years, scientists have made some fascinating discoveries about ancient humans and tattoos. Below, we’ll dive into some of the most fascinating tattoo discoveries from ancient history.
Lex Leigh - 11/12/2022 - 13:58
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Oldest and Largest Tomb of a Scythian Prince May Contain Outstanding Treasure
... is not only the largest Scythian princely tomb in South Siberia, but also the earliest -- and that it may be ... is not only the largest Scythian princely tomb in South Siberia, but also the earliest -- and that it may be ... high-resolution satellite images of the Uyuk River valley (Siberia) on his computer screen. An initial trial dig carried ...
ancient-origins - 13/01/2018 - 01:53
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Eight Impressive but Terrifying Cases of Ancient Surgery
... individuals. 2,000-year-old trepanation surgery in ancient Siberia In February, 2015, Russian scientists examined ... bronze tools on a modern skull to see how doctors in Siberia more than 2,000 years ago performed brain surgery on ...
aprilholloway - 23/04/2015 - 01:29
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2,500-Year-Old Carpet is Stunning Reflection of Advanced Culture of the Pazyryk Nomads
... it was pulled from a royal tomb in the Pazyryk Valley of Siberia, Russia, and has been dated to around the ... it was pulled from a royal tomb in the Pazyryk Valley of Siberia, Russia, and has been dated to around the 5 th ... BC. The Pazyryk tribe lived in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, Russia. ...
dhwty - 30/03/2018 - 23:03
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DNA from Ancient Denisovan Tooth Sheds Light on Mysterious Human Relative
... in the remote Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. However, DNA extracted from the fossils has opened a ... from, Neanderthals, and which roamed the plains of Siberia long before modern humans arrived. The pinky bone ... that lived as far away from one another as Spain and Siberia,” said Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at ...
aprilholloway - 17/11/2015 - 21:56
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This Musical Instrument Still Works 1,700 Years After a Hun Nomad Crafted it!
The nomadic musician looked fondly upon the latest of the completed instruments – a mouth harp carefully crafted by splintering the rib of a cow, or was it a horse? No matter, the sound it made when it was plucked was beautiful – somewhat similar to a flute. Three more of the instruments lay on the bench unfinished…a state they would retain for the next 1,700 years.
Alicia McDermott - 12/01/2018 - 22:56
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Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Dirt Using Breakthrough Technology
... , which was removed from caves in northern Spain and Siberia. This remarkable achievement emerged from the work of ... in the study. Chagyrskaya cave in the Altai mountains of Siberia was home to Neanderthals for tens of thousands of ... genetically related to the group that occupied Denisova in Siberia 120,000 years ago, while the two females belonged to ...
Nathan Falde - 19/04/2021 - 23:00
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What we discovered about ancient human origins this year… and what is still a mystery
... who are thought to have lived in the vast expanse from Siberia to Southeast Asia. This was unexpected since the ... another finding, the DNA of a young boy found in eastern Siberia may hold the key to unravelling the mystery of where ... were found buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. The team discovered that the boy’s DNA matched ...
aprilholloway - 31/12/2013 - 04:35
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7,000-year-old skeleton could have suffered the oldest case of leukemia
German researchers have discovered signs of what may be the earliest known case of leukemia on a 7,000 year old skeleton. The victim of the disease was a female individual who appears to have been in her 30’s when she died. Her skeleton was initially excavated in 1982 at a site near Stuttgart-Mühlhausen in south western Germany, dating from the early Neolithic period. Another 71 burials were uncovered near her at the same location.
Robin Whitlock - 20/08/2015 - 14:50
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7,000-Year-Old Head Surgery: One of the Oldest Trepanned Skulls Discovered in Sudan
... of the most impressive discoveries was made last year in Siberia. As Mark Miller reported in February 4, 2015: ... bronze tools on a modern skull to see how doctors in Siberia more than 2,000 years ago performed brain surgery on ... nomads carried out highly advanced cranial surgery in Siberia Skull of male with trepanation, who had a hereditary ...
Natalia Klimczak - 06/07/2016 - 00:49
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Mummified Woman with Christian Cross Dashes Hopes of Finding Russian Fortress
... in 1632 on the order of Cossack Petr Beketov, one of Siberia’s most famous explorers. Drawing of the Lensky ... fortress which is a key site in the Russian history of Siberia. It existed only two years before being flooded, ...
ancient-origins - 16/11/2019 - 18:42
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Cataclysm, Mass Extinctions, and the Consequent Myths
... were suddenly thrown together. The Beresovka mammoth in Siberia was found with daises in its stomach. The intense ... wholly preserved, mummified mammoth carcass discovered in Siberia. (Cropbot / CC BY-SA 2.0 ) It froze the ground solid, ... that the immigrants must have gone from the arctic (Siberia) to the tropics and on to the near Antarctic regions ...
Dr Pat Hanratty - 04/12/2019 - 23:04