This photo released by the University of Colorado-Boulder on 11 January shows bone and ivory artifacts found in the lowest layer of the Kostenki site in Russia, including a probable small human figurine (three views, top centre). New research backs the theory that modern humans spread out of Africa relatively recently, around 50,000 years ago, on the first step of our species' conquest of the planet.
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