In 1982, in the eastern Siberia of Russia, in the remote town of Diring-Yuryakh on the territory of modern Yakutia, local scientists discovered ancient stones with traces of primitive manual processing, similar to stone tools of labor of distant human ancestors. To carry out an examination and determine the dating of the Yakut primitive stone tools, a modern method of radio thermoluminescent analysis was used, performed in one of the Moscow laboratories. Such an analysis showed that the age of the find varies from 2.8 to 3.2 million years. Have the most ancient traces of human presence on Earth been found in Yakutia? And the age of the human race is not limited to the previously assumed by scientists two million years, but in fact the civilization of people is much older?
Earlier, before the Yakut discovery, Africa was considered the ancestral home of mankind. In the Olduvai Gorge in Ethiopia in 1959, the English archaeologist Mary Nicole and the Kenyan anthropologist Louis Leakey unearthed the skeletons and stone tools of the very first representatives of the genus Homo (People) - cavemen Homo Naledi, who lived on Earth 2.4 million years ago. These semi-monkeys walked on two legs and were erect. They already used auxiliary tools and knew how to perform the simplest processing of stones.
The place on the stone, on which the primitive man hit with another stone, is called a chip, and the waste of such manual production is flakes. The very stone tool of the Paleolithic era obtained in this way is called a chopper. With the help of hand-knocked such universal sharp-pointed stones, the first people dug holes, dugouts, cut, chopped, killed prey, butchered and processed animal skins.
Paleoanthropologists, through careful research and examination of the remains, have determined that the most ancient representatives of the genus of primates of the hominid family, found in southern Africa, appeared on the planet 2.8 million years ago. Later, a number of sites of ancient people were found in the southeast of the African continent. Homo Naledi disappeared from the face of the Earth for unknown reasons about 300 thousand years ago.
150 thousand years after the extinction of the caveman, in the same place in Africa, Homo Sapiens (Homo sapiens) arose. At the same time, Homo Neanderthalensis (Neanderthals) spread and evolved on the territory of modern Europe. For the first time, the scientist Charles Darwin suggested that modern man, as a result of natural evolution, descended from an ape. In his opinion, it was in Africa that there were ideal natural climatic conditions for the appearance of the first people.
Contradictory opinions of scientists immediately arose in connection with the age of the Yakut find. Some argued that this was generally a falsification in order to inflate a sensation and gain worldwide fame. Others have a very urgent question - why the manual technology of man-made stone choppers around the world has not changed at all in more than two million years of people being on the planet, why there was no development and improvement of the skills of primitive people. As in Yakutia more than three million years ago, the manual processing of stone by people was carried out in exactly the same way 110 thousand years ago in America. This is confirmed by pebble tools found in the valley of the American Fraser River. The same technology was used to make African stone tools, measured 2 million years old, and Oldovan choppers 1,8 million years from Dmanisi in South Georgia.
In world science, including archeology, discoveries have already been made, predicted theoretically in advance. For example, at the end of the 19th century, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel predicted the existence of Pithecanthropus in the development of the animal world and attributed it to an intermediate evolutionary link between the ancestral forms of man - Australopithecus and Neanderthal. And in 1891, the Dutchman Eugene Dubois really discovered a representative of this intermediate species between a monkey and a man on the island of Java, but the scientific community recognized the value of this find only 25 years later. It seems that a similar story repeats itself with the ancient tools of Yakut scientists.
In 2015, 30 kilometers from the village of Nizhniy Bestyakh, Yakut paleontologists discovered the remains of a steppe mammoth (trogontery elephant) - this was again a literal find of a global scale. The time interval of its existence, scientists have estimated in the range from half a million to a million years. The Yakut mammoth turned out to be the most complete find of the skeleton of prehistoric bones in comparison with previously found similar remains of giant animals in Kazakhstan, Stavropol and Krasnodar. As you know, where there was food, the human race could live there, regardless of climatic conditions and temperature differences.
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In the course of adaptation to northern conditions, the civilization of the people of the Far North, which developed by its own way of evolution, probably independently arose. It was the extreme conditions of Siberia that gave impetus to the development of the progress of the human race for survival.
The entire history of the Paleolithic is captured in numerous archaeological sites of the Lena River valley and the Vilyui basin. The scientific world is presented with the excavations of scientists from the age of the Deering site (the most ancient Paleolithic - the transitional period of the transformation of a monkey into an erect creature) to the later cultures: Alalai (the era of monkey-men during the Lower Paleolithic), Kyzylsyr (Middle Paleolithic about 150 - 80 thousand years), Duktay (the formation of modern people - the Upper Paleolithic). All these studies confirm the scientific theory of the permanent settlement of vast areas of northeast Asia, first by humanoid creatures, and then by primitive people.
From what the Earth conceals, an insignificant amount of the available archaeological secrets has been excavated, no more than one percent. Perhaps, in connection with the finds from Yakutia, the ideas of modern people about the origin and development of the human race on our planet will once again be turned upside down.