Humanity survives thanks to the Altai climate

Altai Denisov Cave in the south of Western Siberia has allowed humanity to exist as a creature, which is an observation by an international group of scientists studying the Altai mountain area - Sayan.

Climate conditions are stable, so some ancient forms of people could survive here - the Russian expert Pavel Tarasov said.

"The lost world of the 21st century" - scientists named it for the Altai mountain system - Sayan . Since the last glacial climate, the Russian landscape in Altai and Sayan has remained almost unchanged. Moreover, there are almost all mammals preserved here like in ancient times.

Scientists have compared the list of animals that live here, with a list of residents of seven Eurasian continental regions in the last ice age, ie 12,000-35,000 years ago. It turns out that local prehistoric animals - like wild horses, deer, saiga antelopes and wolverines - are almost intact. Only mammoths are extinct."In Altai, we have a fairly accurate modern comparison of the fauna of the Pleistocene or The Renewal , " said John Stewart, a scientist from Bournemouth University - UK.

Biologist Pavel Tarasov from Berlin's Free University explains the conservation of ice ages here because of its cold and dry climate. There was a similar arid climate during the last ice age. Quite oddly, in Eurasia it was almost snowless, Tarasov said. Grass grows and animals still have food.

It is such a stable climate that allows humans to survive as a species, the scientific research group put forward hypotheses. Here, on Altai, there is the famous Denisov cave - a unique archaeological site, where a few years ago found traces of the presence of three human-like species: the bones of Neanderthal gibbons, tools The rudeness used by Homo sapiens and the remains of the prehistoric type was also named Denisov.

This is the most famous cave known in the world as the habitat of all three types of caveman people. It is no coincidence that scientists call Denisov's cave a human cradle."The ancient people survived here because the climate conditions in Altai are almost unchanged, and can be hunted in a variety of different kinds of animals," said the research team.

At the end of the ice age, people who lived in Altai moved down at the foot of the mountain and spread across the continent, scientists said. The recent results of large-scale international genetic research projects show that Native American residents are from the Altai-Sayan mountains, Pavel Tarasov announced. This new discovery has been published in the prestigious scientific journal American Journal of Human Genetics.