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An ancient piece of bone found in the Crimean Cave of Starosle changes what we think about how Neanderthals migrated.
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This fragment, now known as star 1, has been genetically identified from earlier times in eastern Siberia.
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Attack links thousands of miles away to the east and west may mean that Crimea serves as a transit point during migration.
Hidden in Come Canyon deep within the Crimean mountains is the paleolithic site of the carokelole cave. Archaeologists who have recently excavated the site have been bombarded with animal bones, eventually finding a rough patch 40-50,000 years ago. What they don’t know is that these human relatives have been found as far east as Siberia.
Carosele Cave is known for the human remains that have been found since its discovery in the early 1950s. So far, they have all turned out to be ancient or post-ancient. There was even a “famous child,” which was thought to represent a change among Neanderthals as well homo sapiens, Until later analysis showed that this was a burial from ancient times. While remnants of the genocide remained in the region, which appeared to be the refuge of these homes, DNA could not be extracted from them.
Now, ancient DNA from part of the Neanderthal Bone Colvernce known as Star 1 reveals how they migrated.
The late and modern Neanderthals of today are very rare in Eurasia. Even animal carcasses from Paleolithic sites are difficult to see after the carnivores have been banned, worn by erosion and taphononic processes, and driven by humans. The natural anthropologist Emily Spott, of the University of Vienna, and her team used zooarchaeology with mass spectrometry (Zooms) to find the type of fossils. This destructive method separated the Neanderthal Bone Fragment, probably a humerus or femur, from the bones of ancient animals.
“Genetically, star 1 is closely related to Alandai through its MITOCHOMRIAL DNA, which suggests a long migration of Neanderthal groups throughout Eurasia. “This migration among the most favorable climatic conditions may have involved the spread of the microquian lithic culture, indicating cultural continuity and regional mobility during the late Pleistocene.”
Whoever this person is, the radiocarbon dating of star 1 revealed that they lived during the Crimean Microquian technological period, where the stone was ground into thin pieces and re-asked on both sides to produce bifacial tools and weapons. When the mitochondrial DNA, which resides in the mitochondria of the cell and is inherited from the donor side, was analyzed, its origin was found to be far from local. This piece of bone was linked to others at three sites in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Denisova Cave, Chagyrskaya Cave, and Okladnikov Cave are located 3,864 kilometers (3,000 km) to the northeast.
Pilott and his team also investigated by developing habitat suitability models that suggested paleocliases during subduction, when large ice sheets that were frozen during the Ice Age melted. Chagyrskaya and Okladnikov are thought to have been hunting camps during certain hunting seasons. The researchers found what may have been a dominant game system from eastern Siberia all the way to the Crimean peninsula, and these groups have a lot of genes.
The bones that were leaking fell in love with him at the same time, some of them have knife marks, showing that they hunted horses, buffalo and other animals that wandered where they lived. The stone tools excavated from Starosle also account for the remarkable similarity to those at Okladnikov and Chagyrskaya. Pilott’s discovery supports previous studies that concluded long-distance distances, and that the Star 1 Discovery could say that Crimea was at the top of the road known as the whole of Siberian Europe.
“It’s possible that Neanderthals were in Altai at two, maybe three, different times,” he said. “Our results show that Caroshele is part of a wider network of related Neanderthals, linked by genes, lithics and behavior.”
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