Michael Shunkov

{{Short description|Russian archaeologist}}

Michael V. Shunkov is a Russian archaeologist and member of the Russian Academy of Science working at Novosibirsk State University.{{Cite web |title=Шуньков М.В. |url=https://archaeology.nsc.ru/sotrudniki/person/shunkov_mv/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |language=ru-RU}} Shunkov was one of the archaeologists behind the find of a fossilized finger-bone excavated in the Siberian Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in 2008 leading up to the 2010 discovery of the Denisova human.{{Cite journal |last1=Krause |first1=Johannes |last2=Fu |first2=Qiaomei |last3=Good |first3=Jeffrey M. |last4=Viola |first4=Bence |last5=Shunkov |first5=Michael V. |last6=Derevianko |first6=Anatoli P. |last7=Pääbo |first7=Svante |date=April 2010 |title=The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=464 |issue=7290 |pages=894–897 |doi=10.1038/nature08976 |pmid=20336068 |bibcode=2010Natur.464..894K |s2cid=4415601 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free |pmc=10152974 }}