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Humans Arrive in Russia (Moscow and Me supplement four)

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Sometimes I don’t know when to stop. In supplements two and three of the Moscow segment of my Olympic cities tour, we met some likely H. erectus hominins at Dmanisi and some early modern humans at Kostenki. But Dmanisi is …

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Humans arrive in Russia (Moscow and Me supplement three)

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Kind of like the governor of Virginia. Transliteration is challenging. It’s often tricky and misleading and the geographical focus of today’s post presents just this sort of problem. In the previous post, I identified the place as Kostenki which is …

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