Permafrost of Kolyma kept a real Indian for 15 thousand years

Permafrost of Kolyma kept a real Indian for 15 thousand years
Permafrost of Kolyma kept a real Indian for 15 thousand years
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An international group of geneticists analyzed DNA obtained from the remains of 40 people. They lived in 5 regions of Siberia in the range from 17 thousand to 1.5 thousand years ago. Scientists have found coincidences of genetic markers among the people who inhabited the Kolyma valley and among the indigenous peoples living in North America.

America was settled by peoples who came from Siberia. But Siberia is big, and a new study of geneticists made it possible to clarify where and where people moved from 15 thousand years ago

The process of settling America went from Northeast Asia while there was a vast land area connecting Asia and America. About 11 thousand years ago, it was flooded during the rise of the world's oceans. Who and when moved to America, and how the peoples moved in Siberia and became the topic of a new study by geneticists.

An international group of geneticists, which included scientists from Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Blagoveshchensk and other Russian cities, collected and analyzed DNA obtained from the remains of 40 people. They lived in 5 regions of Siberia, in the range from 17 thousand to one and a half thousand years ago.

The aim of the study was to study migrations within Siberia, and the exit of a part of the inhabitants of Asia who inhabited these places through Beringia to America.

The coincidences of DNA markers of modern Eskimos living in Alaska with fossil remains were found in the Kolyma valley. Such coincidences were not found among the representatives of the peoples who lived on the shores of Lake Baikal.

Approximately 15 thousand years ago, the climate of Siberia softened, and at this time the flourishing of the peoples living here falls. If the population living to the west of Lake Baikal was quite stable, then on the eastern coast, peoples appeared and left, the lands were settled and suddenly emptied.

An important observation made by scientists was the discovery of the reasons why the eastern Baikal region was empty 5 thousand years ago. Most likely, the bubonic plague was the main cause. Traces of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that caused the epidemic, were found in the remains of one of the representatives of the people who lived east of Lake Baikal at that time.

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