Okladnikov Cave,Siberia

[Robert Henvell]

    Postcranial remains from Okladnikov Cave,Siberia:by T B Viola et al,AAPA abstracts,2008,page 214.

   If anyone attended the above talk,could they please comment on the author's classification of the adult and infant fossils at the cave.Are they deemed to be Neanderthal,Homo sapiens or too fragmented to categorize?

[Robert Henvell]

  Found a letter in Nature Vol 449/18 October 2007 by Johannes Krause et al,which is titled Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia.
  The bone fragments from the infant at Okladnikou Cave yielded Neanderthal DNA and date to ca 40400-32250 BCE [cal].The adult bone fragments did not yield Neanderthal DNA and date to ca 27180 BCE +/-700a [cal].The Neanderthal DNA for the infant differs from that of the Neanderthal child at Teshik-Tash Cave in Uzbekistan.

[lagarvelho]

Robert:

Didn't somebody claim not too long ago, that the Teshik-Tash child was an early "modern"?
Anne G

[Robert Henvell]

Robert:

Didn't somebody claim not too long ago, that the Teshik-Tash child was an early "modern"?
Anne G

Anne,
Yes they did,but the DNA analysis appears to have refuted their statement.

[lagarvelho]

Robert:

I had no idea.  I saw the reports claiming the Teshik-Tash child was not Neandertal, but I never saw anything refuting that.  Perhaps you could point me to the study?
Anne G

[Victoria]

Yes: KRAUSE et al. NEANDERTHALS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND SIBERIA, Nature 449/18 October 2007: 902-904

[lagarvelho]

Victoria:

Thanks very much for that.  I'll have to look that up.
anne G

Yes: KRAUSE et al. NEANDERTHALS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND SIBERIA, Nature 449/18 October 2007: 902-904