The hunter gatherers were a mixture between two distinct groups that lived in Siberia during the last Ice Age.
were also found here. Additionally, this area has played a significant role in human history as a crossroads for migrations of people throughout millennia between northern Siberia, Central Asia, and East Asia.
The newly discovered gene pool might be the best source for the presumed ANE-related population that gave rise to Bronze Age populations from North and Inner Asia. This includes the Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers, the pastoralists connected to Okunevo, and the mummies from the Tarim Basin, researchers say.
“Interestingly, the Nizhnetytkesken individual was found in a cave containing rich burial goods with a religious costume and objects interpreted as possible representation of shamanism.” “It is not clear if the Nizhnetytkesken individual came from far away or the population from which he derived was located close by,” she says. “However, his grave goods appear different than other local archeological contexts implying mobility of both culturally and genetically diverse individuals into the Altai region.”The peopling history of North Asia remains largely unexplored due to the limited number of ancient genomes analyzed from this region.
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