New species of early human found in Siberia – RT Top Stories: “The fossil finger bone was discovered in 2008 by a team of archaeologists led by Mikhail Shunkov and Anatoly Derevyanko of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk. It was found in the Denisova cave in the Altay Mountains in a layer radiocarbon dated to between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago.”