For the study, material was taken from a skull about 45 thousand years old, found in the town of Zlaty Kun in
It turned out that the genome from Zlata Kun containsabout the same amount of Neanderthal DNA as other modern humans, about 2-3%, but the Neanderthal gene segments themselves are much longer in him than in everyone else.
According to the authors of the work, the DNA of this woman is notfound in people who lived later in Europe or Asia. This suggests that modern humans were present in southeastern Europe as early as 47,000–43,000 years ago.
Interestingly, the earliest modern humans inEurope was ultimately unsuccessful. As with Ust-Ishim Man or the oldest European find, the Peshtera cu Oase skull in Romania, Zlata Kun Man does not demonstrate genetic continuity with modern humans who lived in Europe later, after 40 thousand years ago.
Johannes Krause, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
One possible explanation for the gapin two waves of the settlement of Europe by sapiens, the authors cite the Campanian ignimbrite eruption, which occurred 40-39 thousand years ago, which greatly influenced the climate in the Northern Hemisphere.
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