In the summer of 2006 an expedition of Russian archeologists, together with the scientists from Uzbekistan, USA, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium, recommenced the excavation works in the Obi-Rakhmat grotto in the Paltau river valley. Here in 2003 there were found the most ancient remains of euhominid in Eurasia.
The valley of the Paltau river played an exclusive role in the history of human civilization, as human culture that appeared here in extreme antiquity was constantly developing from stone tools to metal founding.
During the excavation works carried out in this area in the 1960s there were discovered the traces of Stone Age material culture belonging to the epoch characterized by the evolutionary changes in physiology of man.
The diggings of the later period brought to light the remains of a man who had lived 70-80 thousand years before and who possessed physiological properties characteristic of both the Neanderthal man and euhominid. These findings testify to the fact that in Central Asia euhominid appeared long ago, and this region was most likely to serve a kind of crossroad for the subsequent human migrations throughout the Eurasian continent |