tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post2875785345367505147..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Altai Once WarmerAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-18302619799446107552011-07-07T00:26:13.735-06:002011-07-07T00:26:13.735-06:00Altai was inhabited all the time. Siberia in gener...Altai was inhabited all the time. Siberia in general was dry cold, without ice or snow in most of its extension in the Ice Age. It was also full of lakes, blocked by the northernly Ice Sheet, as you can see <a href="http://www.donsmaps.com/icemaps.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> (scroll down to bottom of page) but it was not covered in ice/snow because the climate was too dry for that. <br /><br />"... the conventional account is that Siberia was mostly uninhabited until relatively late after the Out of Africa period"...<br /><br />Not really, what happened is that it was inhabited by Neanderthals and those pesky "Denisovan" hybrids (?)<br /><br />That was also the case of Europe for example. Actually Altai and Europe (all West and Central Eurasia in fact make a single region for this purpose) were colonized in about the same period 48-40 Ka ago and by related peoples who used the same kind of "Aurignacoid" technology and left the same kind of genetic legacy.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com