Discover the oldest living place in the mountains

In the territory of Papua New Guinea at an altitude of nearly 2,000 meters above sea level, scientists found that the oldest residence included 6 shelter tents with a total area of ​​nearly 2 square meters, Lenta site. The source from Science News said.

Earlier, it was thought that nearly 50 thousand years ago, humans did not migrate to the high mountains, because on Earth it was an extremely harsh ice age and climate. However, the analysis of carbon components of stone tools found in the field showed that this human residence dates to nearly 49 thousand years.

Early human migrations are still unexplained for scientists. Recently there has been a scientific work that rejects the traditional notion of human time coming from Africa. The results of genetic analysis show that it happened almost 60 thousand years ago. However, the authors of a new study have determined the age of the tools found on Indian territory and the Arabian Peninsula, and they believe it happened 70 thousand years ago.

Until now, the alpine place of Homo sapiens in Tibet was still considered the oldest. However, it is still younger than the newly discovered residence in Papua New Guinea for at least 19 thousand years.