For most Europeans and Americans, the name Siberia conjures up prison camps, inhospitable landscapes, and unspeakable cold. Certainly archaeologists have considered Siberia to be one of the last places on Earth that modern humans elected to settle. But, ironically, it may have been one of the first. In the June issue of Antiquity, American and Russian archaeologists report that two key Siberian sites date to at least 40,000 y.ears agp--nearly 10,000 years earlier than previously thought and just about the time rnodern human beings first showed up in Europe.
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