Pollen analysis suggests peopling of Siberia and Europe by modern humans occurred during a major Pleistocene warming spell

A new study appearing in Science Advances compares Pleistocene vegetation communities around Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, to the oldest archeological traces of Homo sapiens in the region. The researchers use the ‘remarkable evidence’ to tell a compelling story from 45,000-50,000 years ago with new detail: how the first humans migrated across Europe and Asia.


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Source: ScienceDaily