This cave – as it emerges from the new evidence – is the only known where both the Neanderthals and their cousins, Denisova, lived for a long period of time, roughly ranging from at least 200,000 to 50,000 years. It cannot be ruled out that caves from Denisova had begun 300,000 years ago.
The discovery of a finger from a girl's finger in the cave in 2010 revolutionized paleoanthropology as the genetic analysis of this bone and other fossils bone and teeth found in the same cave revealed that they did not come from either Homo sapiens or Neanderthal but from another species of the broader Homo, named Denisova from the name of the cave.
Subsequent analyzes showed that many modern Asians still carry their DNA genes.
For the first time, researchers from different countries (Germany, Russia, UK, Canada, and Australia) by the archaeologist anthropologist Dr. Katerina Douka from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History of Jena and Zenobia Jacobs of the Australian University of Wollongong, who made two publications in the journal Nature, presented the best date so far for the cave cavity.
Analyzing many fossils so far found in the cave Duka and her colleagues concluded that Denisova, based on the oldest fossil, was present on this site 195,000 years ago and on the basis of the newest fossil, they were present until 76,000 to 52,000 years ago.
Even dating of artifacts (such as decorative tooth and tusk mammoths) found in the cave shows that these were created 49,000 to 43,000 years ago, making them the oldest discoveries in northern Eurasia. Probably, according to the researchers, Denisova's creations are. The researchers also dated the Neanderthal fossils in the same Siberian cave and estimated that they are between 80,000 and 180,000 years old.
The second publication, led by Mrs Jacobs, estimates that Denisova lived in the cave 287,000 55,000 years. The traces of Neanderthals were also dated 193,000 to 97,000 years ago.
It is still unclear what kind of cohabitation there was between Neanderthals and Denisova, which is estimated to have met in the cave about 100,000 years ago. However, the genetic analysis has shown that there have been pathogens
The cave has found a daughter fossil, the so-called Deni, who lived 79,000 to 118,000 years ago and whose genetic analysis in 2018- Denis the modern is Denisova and the other Neanderthal. Denisova's cave is large and complex, as it has several consecutive chambers of different sizes, the largest with dimensions of 9 at 11 meters and height 10 meters
The cave was discovered in 1977 from the Russian (Soviet) paleontologist Nikolay Ovhodov, while his systematic excavation began in 1982 and is carried out by researchers from the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography from the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, according to REA – MEP
It is still unclear when the cave was inhabited by Homo sapiens, estimated to have come to Siberia for at least 47,000 to 43,000 years ago.
Katerina Douka graduated in 2004 from the Department of Conservation of Antiquities by TEI in Athens and then graduated from the University of Oxford, from where she graduated in 2011.
He is currently head of a research team at Max Planck Institute for Human Sciences within the framework of the five-year European research project FINDER to locate and analyze new Denisova fossils in Asia. She is also a visiting professor at the Oxford School of Archeology.
Source: vaaju.com