A Missing Link?

Andrey Krivoshapkin

Ancient Neanderthals and Homo sapiens might have common children! Such a conclusion can be derived proceeding from the results of the analyses of anthropological findings from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto…

In 2003, a sensational discovery was made in the course of excavations of a Paleolithic site in the vicinity of Tashkent: human fossils aged not less than 50 thousand years. This finding provides us with a unique opportunity to reconstruct the appearance of the humans who executed a technological and cultural "revolution" during the period of transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic.

The cranium of the Western-Central Asian Man demonstrates a combination of features characterizing the Neanderthal population and humans of the physically modern type, while other parameters do not have any analogues known so far. Scholars cannot give us a definite answer on the causes of the noted uniqueness...

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