Michael V. Shunkov is a Russian archaeologist and member of the Russian Academy of Science working at Novosibirsk State University. Shunkov was one of the archaeologists behind the find of a fossilized finger-bone excavated in the Siberian Denisova Cave in the

Altai Mountains The Altai Mountains (), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia, Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob River, Ob have their headwaters. The m ...

in 2008 leading up to the 2010 discovery of the Denisova human.

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Russian archaeologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University {{Russia-archaeologist-stub