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50,000 year old Siberian bones may be the 'oldest Homo sapiens' outside Africa and Middle East
By The Siberian Times reporter21 May 2018
Finds of 'lion-hunting ancient man' excavated from site of new road new Lake Baikal now undergoing tests at Germany’s Max Planck Institute.
If the discovery in Buryatia is verified as being Homo sapiens, it will alter scientific thinking about the arrival of man in Siberia.
The discovery was made in the Tunkinskaya Valley by Irkutsk scientists in 2016.
Older bones date to 50,000 years ago, younger ones at the same site to around 30,000 years ago, and they were found alongside tools and animal bones indicating these ancients were proficient hunters of cave lions, bison, horses and deer.
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http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/50000-year-old-bones-found-in-siberia-may-be-the-oldest-homo-sapiens-outside-africa-and-middle-east/