A group of scientists from Russia and Germany has arrived at the conclusion, based on many years of research, that it was the territory of the present Russia, where the Europeans first appeared.
      
      Results of recent research prove that the man of the modern Caucasian race had appeared by the 50th - 40th millennium BC and initially inhabited only the Russian Plain (also East European Plain), and later spread around the lands of entire Europe.
      
      As the BBC radio reports, the scientist made such a conclusion after state-of-the-art expertise of a man’s skeleton unearthed in the ancient tumulus Markina Gora (Kostenki XIV) near Voronezh back in 1954. It came to light that the genetic code of the person buried around 28 thousand years ago corresponded to the genetic code of modern Europeans.
      
      Today the Kostenki archeological site near Voronezh is recognized by archeologists worldwide as the most ancient habitat of the modern type Caucasoid people.
      
      Source: svpressa.ru