The skullcap found in the Salkhit Valley in eastern Mongolia belonged to a woman who lived 34,000 years ago. Analyses showed: She had inherited about 25 percent of her DNA from Western Eurasian. Credit: Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Denisovan DNA Found In The Genome Of Oldest Human Fossil Discovered In Mongolia

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have analyzed the genome of the oldest human fossil found in Mongolia to date and show that the 34,000-year-old woman inherited around 25 percent of her DNA from western Eurasians. The skullcap found in the Salkhit Valley in eastern Mongolia belonged to a woman who lived 34,000 years ago. […]