Denisova cave is located in Siberia, Russia. A hermit named Denis lived there in the 1700s, which is how it became known as ...

In July 2011, three years after Tsybankov unearthed the bone chip, Anatoly Derevianko organized a scientific symposium at the archaeological camp a few hundred yards from Denisova cave.

The toe bone was found in a cave in Denisova, Siberia, where the conditions for DNA preservation are near-perfect. “The cave year-round has an average temperature ...