Indonesia find alters view of human spread

By Rahman Muchtar and Heru Asprihanto
Updated October 6 2021 - 2:37pm, first published 2:31pm
Researchers excavate a cave for Denisovan fossils in the Altai Krai area of Russia. (file photo)
Researchers excavate a cave for Denisovan fossils in the Altai Krai area of Russia. (file photo)

Genetic traces in the body of a young woman who died 7000 years ago furnish the first clue that mixing between early humans in Indonesia and those from faraway Siberia took place much earlier than previously thought.

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