Journal article
The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene
University of Copenhagen1
Leiden University2
Russian State University for the Humanities3
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute4
Russian Ministry of Health5
Northeast State University6
RAS - Siberian Branch7
University of Cambridge8
University of Greenland9
University of Helsinki10
National Institute for Health and Welfare11
Russian Academy of Sciences12
Shejire DNA project13
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign14
University of Gothenburg15
University of Turku16
Wellcome Sanger Institute17
University of California at Berkeley18
Southern Methodist University19
University of Southern Denmark20
University of Lisbon21
University of Bern22
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics23
Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark24
The University of Chicago25
CAS - Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology26
Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health SA27
...and 17 moreNortheastern Siberia has been inhabited by humans for more than 40,000 years but its deep population history remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the late Pleistocene population history of northeastern Siberia through analyses of 34 newly recovered ancient genomes that date to between 31,000 and 600 years ago.
We document complex population dynamics during this period, including at least three major migration events: an initial peopling by a previously unknown Palaeolithic population of ‘Ancient North Siberians’ who are distantly related to early West Eurasian hunter-gatherers; the arrival of East Asian-related peoples, which gave rise to ‘Ancient Palaeo-Siberians’ who are closely related to contemporary communities from far-northeastern Siberia (such as the Koryaks), as well as Native Americans; and a Holocene migration of other East Asian-related peoples, who we name ‘Neo-Siberians’, and from whom many contemporary Siberians are descended.
Each of these population expansions largely replaced the earlier inhabitants, and ultimately generated the mosaic genetic make-up of contemporary peoples who inhabit a vast area across northern Eurasia and the Americas.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group UK |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Pages: | 182-188 |
| Journal subtitle: | International Weekly Journal of Science |
| ISSN: | 14764687 and 00280836 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41586-019-1279-z |
| ORCIDs: | 0000-0003-2818-8319 , 0000-0002-3081-3702 , Rasmussen, Simon , 0000-0002-2576-2429 , 0000-0002-4060-0153 , 0000-0003-4585-0300 , 0000-0002-3708-0476 , 0000-0002-7568-4270 , 0000-0003-0513-6591 and 0000-0002-7081-6748 |
