Who Were the Chagyrskaya Neanderthals? The Possibility of Their Dispersal Across Central Asia and Southern Siberia

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ID6036786
AutoresA P Derevianko (0000-0003-1156-8331, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas3-19
Data de publicação2024-06-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArchaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1563-0110 • E-ISSN: 1531-832X
EditoraInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.2.003-019
OpenAlexW4400169771
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas38

My article in the previous issue, based on findings of archaeological excavations of Paleolithic sites in the Altai, primarily in Denisova Cave, as well as facts concerning the time of origin of Neanderthal anatomy and genetics in Europe, challenged the view, based on the genetic analysis of the Altaian Neanderthals, that they had migrated to the Altai before 175 ka BP and occupied Denisova Cave by turns with Denisovans. In fact, the Neanderthal occupation of the Altai began apparently no earlier than 60 ka BP. Thus far, Neanderthal fossils with a Micoquian Mousteroid industry have been found in three caves: Chagyrskaya, Okladnikov, and Strashnaya. This group of Neanderthals, evidencing the easternmost dispersal wave of those humans in Asia, was termed the Chagyrskaya group

Archaeology · Biological dispersal · Biological evolution · Biology · Cave · Geography · Hominidae · Middle Paleolithic · Mousterian · Neanderthal · Population · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology