Denisovan Origins Yet where and how did this shamanic civilisation begin? Where did modern humans first come to adopt pre-existing ideas that would ultimately lead to the spread of the shamanic civilisation, something that I am certain culminated with the foundation of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Anatolia around 9600 BCE? Certainly, we know that modern humans will have first encountered Neanderthals in Europe and southwestern Asia as much as 65,000 years ago, and arguably even earlier still. Yet what about the Denisovans, whom we suspect had an even greater impact on the development of the shamanic civilisation than their western neighbours, the Neanderthals? Where and how did we first encounter them? What exactly happened when this went down?
It is a matter that archaeologists are turning their attention to more and more. For instance, it was announced recently that archaeological excavations in the Transbiakal region of northern Mongolia suggest that early contact between Denisovans and modern humans occurred there as much as 45,000 years ago. What is more, those responsible for these excavations are now suggesting that it might well have been the Denisovans, and not modern humans alone, who introduced the stone tool technologies that would come to dominate the Upper Palaeolithic tool kit right down to the Neolithic age. It is a finding that backs up existing evidence presented in Denisovan Origins—that it was close to the shores of a huge inland sea straddling southern Siberia and central Mongolia called Lake Baikal—that our ancestors’ interaction with Denisovans and Denisovan hybrids kickstarted human civilisation some 45,000 years ago.
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