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We know that many people moved from North Asia to North America many years ago, but we hadn’t been able to find out what their genes looked like. Recently, though, researchers studied the genes of ten ancient individuals (some were even up to 7,500 years old) and found out that some of these people actually moved in the opposite direction – from America back to Asia.
Some scientists have discovered a group of people who lived in Neolithic time, that is thousands of years ago. These people were related to ancestors from Siberia and North Eurasia. They lived in an area called Altai-Sayan which is near the border between Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan.
Scientists at the University of Tübingen in Germany recently discovered a hunter-gatherer group that lived in Siberia around 7,500 years ago. This group was made up of two different populations from the Ice Age, and it had a BIG impact on many other regions across North Asia. This shows how much these foraging communities travelled back then.
Posth tells us that the Altai region is really important to people. It’s where they discovered a kind of person who used to live there called Denisovans. But it was also used as a path by people who traveled between northern Siberia, Central Asia, and East Asia for thousands of years.
Researchers discovered that a special gene pool, originally from Ancient Northeast Asia (ANA), has beneficial traits for Bronze Age peoples from Asia. These included Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers, Okunevo-associated pastoralists and Tarim Basin mummies. They also found ANA ancestry in another Neolithic Altai-Sayan person with some unique cultural features.
Scientists recently discovered that a certain type of ancestry from ANA can be found around 1,500 kilometers away from where it was originally thought to have been. Additionally, they also identified 7,000-year-old people with different ancestry linked to hunter-gatherers from Japan.
The research we looked at shows that people have been moving back and forth between North America and Northeast Asia over the past 5,000 years. This movement has gone all the way to Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia. The data proves that these areas had close contact with one another throughout history.
I was surprised to find a person in the Altai Mountains during the same period as other hunter-gatherers but with a different genetic makeup that links them to people found in Russia’s Far East. What makes this even more interesting is that they were buried in a cave with religious clothing and things connected to Shamanism – an ancient speell casting practice.
Dr. Wang says that this discovery indicates that people of different backgrounds were living in the same region around the same time. It’s not clear if Nizhnetytkesken individual was from far away or near, but their grave goods look much different than other places nearby, suggesting that many different kinds of culture and genetics moved into Altai region.
The research from Altai tells us that about 10,000 years ago, people in North Asia were connected to each other despite the long distance between them. This means that it was very normal for people from ancient hunter-gatherer societies to move around and share ideas with each other.
A group of researchers recently published a study called “Middle Holocene Siberian Genomes”. This study looked into how people in North Asia are related to each other from many thousands of years ago. They found out that different groups and cultures were very connected, meaning they shared lots of genetic information with one another. The research was published in the journal Current Biology, on January 12th 2023.
The study was paid for by the Max Planck Society, Alon Fellowship, Russian Science Foundation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), the Science and Higher Education Department of Russia, and Altai State University.
