Institute of archeology and ethnography of SO RAN excavations were instrumental in the discovery of a new type of early human not known before, who inhabited the territory of Altai Krai about 30-40 thousand years ago, at the same time with Neanderthals and people of modern physical type, as announced by the communications department of SO RAN to Academ.info. This extremely significant find was made during quite ordinary circumstances, as the leader of the excavations, vice-director of IAET SO RAN in science, Doctor of historical sciences, Mikhail Shunkov, explained.