🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: Near the Arctic Circle, a group of Neanderthals may have persisted for thousands of years after the rest of their species disappeared.
with the claim: No Neanderthal — or any human — fossils have been found at Byzovaya. Just stone tools and animal bones. To definitively prove a Neanderthal presence, researchers would need bones bearing Neanderthal DNA.
Lacking this, the conclusion comes from analysis of the 313 stone artifacts recovered from Byzovaya. Based on comparisons with well-accepted Neanderthal sites in central and eastern Europe, the scientists contend the tool types and style of craftsmanship are distinctly Neanderthal. ContemporaneousThe reasoning may sound flimsy, but archaeologiststo infer the presence of ancient human species or cultures. Human fossils are really rare. Most sites only have artifacts.
Which brings us back to the stalemate over Byzovaya. Different researchers, viewing the same material, came to differing conclusions. of stone-tool experts thinks the finds more closely resemble artifacts from similarly aged sites in western Russia that haveWhat Types of Tools Did Neanderthals Use and Develop?To date, there are still no DNA-bearing human fossils from Byzovaya. But ancient genomes have been recovered from other sites, which figure into the debate. There’s now DNA data confirming, beyond doubt, the
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