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Denisova Cave – abode of mysterious hominin

Tourists heading for Denisova Cave.
Wikimedia Commons, Chuvayev Nikolai, CC-BY-SA-3.0.

At the right bank of Anui River, 28 metres above the present-day level of water there is located Denisova Cave or, as called by local people – Aju-Tasch. It is not especially large and not adorned with beautiful stalactites – but nonetheless lately it became world famous.

Splinter of bone found here might change they way how we look at our distant past: it is possible that ancient people who lived here had a company of two more species of… humans. But this has to be proven yet.

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