Situated on the western bank of the Yenisei River near Krasnoyarsk, Afontova Gora is an immense, multi-layered Upper Paleolithic site complex that has permanently transformed the science of global human paleogenomics. Excavated extensively across the 20th and 21st centuries, the site preserves a continuous sequence of human occupation dating from 15,000 to 21,000 years ago, right on the cusp of the final retreat of the Ice Age.The successful ext…
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