The European Geoscience Union General Assembly in Vienna last week featured a new discovery of the earliest human presence in Arctic Siberia around 400,000 year ago — more than 100,000 years older than previously thought.
The work (not yet peer-reviewed) is led by Mads Knudsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) and includes GFÚ researcher, John Jansen (Surface Processes & Palaeoclimate), who presented the results at an EGU press conference on 16 April: VIDEO (21:50 – J. Jansen: “Redrawing early human dispersal patterns with cosmogenic nuclides”)
An article in New Scientist magazine also features this new (but as yet unpublished) work.
A selection of the stone tools excavated at Diring Yuriakh in Arctic Siberia (author: R.N. Kurbanov).
The study is being conducted by an international team led by Mads Knudsen (Aarhus University).
John Jansen