Denisova Cave
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Denisova Cave is a cave in the Bashelaksky Range of the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia.
Denisova Cave in 2008
Reconstruction of Altaic cave site, 150.000-10.000 BCE. National Museum of the Altai Republic
Neanderthal distribution.
The interior of the cave, 2008
Denisovan
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The Denisovans or Denisova hominins are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene, approximately 200,000–32,000 years ago. Most of
Denisova Cave
…particular, the 2008 discovery of bone fragments that in 2010 have been conclusively established to have belonged to a separate early human species – the Denisova hominin – which is named after the cave. Other items including artifacts dated to around 40,000 BP. Remains of a 32,000-year-old prehistoric species of horse…
Homo longi holotype
The Denisova Cave, where the first reported Denisovans were found
Replica of part of the phalanx.
Replica of the molar of Denisova. Part of the roots was destroyed to study the mtDNA. Their size and shape indicate it is neither neanderthal nor sapiens.