From the Archives: Stone tools reveal the expansive regions connecting Europe to Asia covered by our explorer cousins.
However, we can still only speculate why the Neanderthals vanished around 40,000 years ago.Other questions also remain unresolved. When did Neanderthals first arrive in the Altai? Were there later migration events? Where did these trailblazers begin their trek? And what routes did they take across Asia?
The excavations have also found 74 Neanderthal fossils—the richest trove of any Altai site—and a range of animal and plant remains, including the abundant bones of bison hunted and butchered by the Neanderthals.to determine when the cave sediments, artifacts, and fossils were deposited, and conducted a detailed study of more than 3,000 stone tools recovered from the deepest archaeological levels.
The Chagyrskaya artifacts most closely resemble those found at sites located 3,000–4,000 kilometers to the west, between the Crimea and Northern Caucasus in Eastern Europe.sharing closer affinities with several European Neanderthals than with a Neanderthal from Denisova Cave.Kseniya Kolobova, Maciej Krajcarz, Victor Chabal
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