| Diring-Yuryah: The Biggest Sensation
The biggest sensation in Yakutian archeology happened in 1982 when in the district Diring-Yuryah on the river Lena were found more than 5000 stone items made by the ancient people.
The discovery totally changed the idea of antiquity of settling the Northeast Asia and let make new clues about the problem of the ancestral home of Mankind. Diring Yuryakh site demonstrates the beginning and the end of the Stone Age, i.e. the earliest paleolith and the late neolith. In the late neolith, there was a temple where leaders of the kin were buried in stone boxes. The earliest paleolith has appeared to archeologists in about 60 working and inhabited platforms of ancient masters, manufacturers of stone instruments. These masters lived and worked nearly 2,5 million years ago, when climate was extremely cold.
Academician J.P.Mochanov asserts that the ancestral home of Mankind could not appear in conditions of the tropical African climate. It must have been in the place with no integumentary congelation and with enough vegetative and animal food. Diring-Yuryakh, where the mid-annual temperature was about -14 degrees C ( 6.8 F ), corresponded to such conditions. The cold made all biological resources incorporated in an organism of our ancestors active, forced them to develop faster, and promoted the quantum leap - the development of intellect.
The idea about the ancestral home of the Mankind ouside of tropical climate in the theories of various sciences, including genetics, nowadays is the leading one.
At present, there are more than ten sites of the earliest ancient paleolith discovered in Yakutia in the basin of the river Lena where stone tools similar to ones from Diring-Yuryakh were revealed. Before the beginning of XXI century there was a chronological break between the earliest paleolith aged 2,500,000 years and Dyuktai culture of late paleolith aged 35,000 years. Thanks to the efforts of Prilensky archeologic expedition of Yakut National Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (heads - J.A.Mochanov, S.A.Fedoseyev), now this break is filled with monuments of Ashel epoch aged 1,800,000 – 600,000 years, the middle paleolith - 600-40,000 years. Thus, the whole chronological scale of ancient history of the Mankind in the territory of Northeastern Asia now is systematized and proved.
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