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Siberian Denisova Cave, home of unknown hominids, to host int'l symposium.
BARNAUL, June 30 (Itar-Tass) -- World's best anthropologists,
archaeologists, paleontologists and paleogeneticists will gather for an
international symposium on July 5 through 9 at the Denisova Cave, a
rockshelter in Russia's Siberian Altai territory, with evidence for
hominid occupation beginning 175000 years ago.
In March, 2010, finger bone fragments of a juvenile that lived about
41,000 years ago were discovered in this cave. Scientists said the bones
belonged to a yet unknown human ancestor. The missing human relatives,
named "Denisovans," are thought to have inhabited much of Asia as recently
as 30,000 years ago, and so shared the land with early modern humans and
Neanderthals. The mtDNA of the Denisova hominin is distinct from the
mtDNAs of Neanderthals and modern humans. In December 2010, an
international team of scientists determined the sequence from the nuclear
genome of this group from this finger bone. According to their analysis,
this group shares a common origin with the Neanderthals and interbred with
the ancestors of modern Melanesians.
Participants in the symposium will discuss problems of the study of
the early history of the Eurasia, chronology of Paleolithic processes, and
migration of human ancestors. Although, its ultimate goal is to have a
closer look at the Denisovans and the cave their remnants were found in.
Denisovans coexisted with Neanderthals, said Mikhail Shunkov, a deputy
director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archaeology and
Ethnography. "Archaeological finds, stone and bone tools, cult objects and
life sustainment methods, hint that the Denisovans were much like the
modern man in their behavior and appearances," he said.
Located in the northwestern Altai Mountains some 6 kilometers from the
village of Chernyi Anui, the Denisova cave shows human occupation from the
Middle Paleolithic to the Late Middle Ages, beginning approximately
125,000 years ago. Excavations in the cave, started in 1977, have
retrieved about 50,000 artefacts that are now kept in various museums.
archaeologists, paleontologists and paleogeneticists will gather for an
international symposium on July 5 through 9 at the Denisova Cave, a
rockshelter in Russia's Siberian Altai territory, with evidence for
hominid occupation beginning 175000 years ago.
In March, 2010, finger bone fragments of a juvenile that lived about
41,000 years ago were discovered in this cave. Scientists said the bones
belonged to a yet unknown human ancestor. The missing human relatives,
named "Denisovans," are thought to have inhabited much of Asia as recently
as 30,000 years ago, and so shared the land with early modern humans and
Neanderthals. The mtDNA of the Denisova hominin is distinct from the
mtDNAs of Neanderthals and modern humans. In December 2010, an
international team of scientists determined the sequence from the nuclear
genome of this group from this finger bone. According to their analysis,
this group shares a common origin with the Neanderthals and interbred with
the ancestors of modern Melanesians.
Participants in the symposium will discuss problems of the study of
the early history of the Eurasia, chronology of Paleolithic processes, and
migration of human ancestors. Although, its ultimate goal is to have a
closer look at the Denisovans and the cave their remnants were found in.
Denisovans coexisted with Neanderthals, said Mikhail Shunkov, a deputy
director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archaeology and
Ethnography. "Archaeological finds, stone and bone tools, cult objects and
life sustainment methods, hint that the Denisovans were much like the
modern man in their behavior and appearances," he said.
Located in the northwestern Altai Mountains some 6 kilometers from the
village of Chernyi Anui, the Denisova cave shows human occupation from the
Middle Paleolithic to the Late Middle Ages, beginning approximately
125,000 years ago. Excavations in the cave, started in 1977, have
retrieved about 50,000 artefacts that are now kept in various museums.
