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Bookmark or Share- Denisova Cave - WikipediaDenisova Cave (Russian: Денисова пещера, romanized: Denísova peshchéra, lit. 'the cave of Denis') is a cave in the Bashelaksky Range of the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia. It is widely known for having provided items of great paleoarchaeological and paleontological interest.
- Denisova Cave | Russia, Map, & Location | BritannicaDenisova Cave, site of paleoanthropological excavations in the Anui River valley roughly 60 miles south of Biysk in the Altai Mountains of Russia. The site contains more than 20 layers of excavated artifacts, indicating occupation by hominins as early as 280,000 years ago.
- Denisova Cave - First Evidence of the Denisovan People - ThoughtCoDenisova Cave is a rockshelter in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. The cave, formed from Silurian sandstone, is ~28 meters above the right bank of the Anui River near its headwaters. It consists of several short galleries extending out from a central chamber, with a total cave area of some 270 sq. m.
- Ancient DNA reveals the history of Denisova CaveDenisova Cave in Russia is known to have been inhabited by Denisovans, Neanderthals, and modern humans. But who lived there, when? Did these species overlap in the cave? DNA recovered from cave sediments allows archaeologists to answer this without destructive sampling of precious fossils.
- Denisova Cave | School of Archaeology - University of OxfordDenisova cave first came to worldwide attention in 2010, with the publication of the genome obtained from the fingerbone of a girl belonging to a group of humans not previously identified in the palaeo-anthropological record; the Denisovans.
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