Byzovaya
Site on the Pechora river close to the Arctic Circle with 313 stone tools of Middle Palaeolithic type. No human bones were found, so who made them is genuinely open.
Dated events and their evidence
- 31,000 BCE disputed
Mousterian tools dated 34,000 to 31,000 years ago, read by the excavators as a late northern Neanderthal refuge source - 31,000 BCE disputed
Published rebuttal: the same assemblage fits Early Upper Palaeolithic variability, so modern humans are the simpler explanation source
Where
65.0242° N, 57.3878° E
Sources
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