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Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by TezlaKoil on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:29PM (#14346723)
This article about the bracelet is from 2015. No updates since then, and it does not link to anything peer-reviewed. All in all I would take this with a huge grain of salt.
Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by c0nducktr on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:40PM (#14346771)
Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by martey on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:50PM (#14347253)
Except the Siberian Times article also doesn't link to anything peer-reviewed, and the Nature paper is about bone identification, not bracelets or other artifacts.

The only academic paper about the bracelet I could find is from 2008 and was submitted to the journal "Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia", whose editor-in-chief, Anatoly Derevyanko, is also the paper's primary author.

Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by BuckRogers on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @03:39AM (#14347988)
True but to be fair they're still fresh findings. And oldest as well, so comparison to other findings is pretty low.
Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by martey on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @02:14PM (#14351911)
> True but to be fair they're still fresh findings.

Your "fresh finding" was found nine years ago - this is even explicitly stated in the 2015 Siberian Times article.

All of the citations for the paper describing the "bracelet" [1] are for uncontroversial findings (that Denisovans existed, that they interbred with Neanderthals, etc.) - none of them make any reference to the supposed "bracelet".

[1]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1563011008...

Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by BuckRogers on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @04:06AM (#14356480)
I figured someone who has no idea what they were talking about would say that. They're fresh but I'm not going to teach as to all the reasons why, as it's clear you don't do much with science, research or archaeology. Good luck.
Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by mirimir on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @02:46AM (#14347819)
There's an article in Pleistocene Coalition News from 2015.[0] But I note: "The Pleistocene Coalition is now into its sixth year of challenging mainstream scientific dogma. If you would like to join the coalition please write to the editors." So ...

I find no peer-reviewed followup about the Denisovan bracelet. However, I do find an article in Current Biology about Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans.[1] The date estimate is about right: "[W]e estimate 44,000–54,000 years ago for Denisovan admixture."

0) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.695...

1) http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2816...

Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by madaxe_again on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:23AM (#14348353)
Indeed, it's poorly written (no morphological similarities to modern humans?? They were alive before they were extinct? Daily mail as source), and this scans more like the mystical bullshit you read in Russian media all the time (Jesus was Russian, all peoples are descended from the pure Slavic archetype, dinosaur spotted in Yekaterinburg, putin wrestles ten bears saving orphanage).
Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by hprotagonist on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:39PM (#14346765)
and quotes the daily mail. as far as i'm concerned that puts it immediately in "bigfoot discovered in noah's ark" territory until definitively shown otherwise.
Re:40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species fo... by horus_the_cat on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:41PM (#14346775)
Daily Mail's holding company has a serious data operation in place though, maybe they're leaking their inside info, like where the ark of the covenant is warehoused, now that earth is totally fucked