Zinovi Matskevich

TL;DR: It is found that Caucasus hunter-gatherers (CHG) belong to a distinct ancient clade that split from western hunter- Gatherers ∼45 kya, shortly after the expansion of anatomically modern humans into Europe and from the ancestors of Neolithic farmers ∼25 KYa, around the Last Glacial Maximum.

TL;DR: Dyed flax fibers from 30,000 years ago show that humans in the Caucasus were making colored twine at that time, and Radiocarbon dates demonstrate that the cave was inhabited intermittently during several periods dated to 32 to 26 thousand years before the present.

TL;DR: The first occupants of Dzudzuana Cave were modern humans, in c 345-322 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, Bergfjord et al. express doubts regarding the identification of flax fibers on the basis of the morphology of their internal layers and use microphotographs and descriptions of the outer layers of fibers as arguments for their claims.

TL;DR: The first occupants of Dzudzuana Cave were modern humans, in c. 34.5-32.2 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread as discussed by the authors.