DNA from primitive man connecting Indians to Europe - Reuters

Traditionally, researchers have assumed that America’s indigenous people have their historical and ethnic roots in Mongolian peoples in East Asia. Partly coinciding germplasm has strengthened this theory.

But now DNA from an indigenous person from Siberia that researchers need to think again.

brace analyzed

It is armbeinet to a four year old boy who died 24,000 years ago in the Stone Age settlement Mal’ta of Lake Baikal in Russia is analyzed by an international group of scientists.

Benet kept in a museum in St . Petersburg, together with the Venus figurines which are also found in the area with Mal’ta. According to the researchers show DNA analyzes of the boy a large germplasm coincide with today’s Indians in America.

– When we compared this child’s genetic material so we have something very strange, namely that this individual seemed to consist of western Eurasiers on one side and Indians on the other hand, says Eske Wilerslev at the National Natural History Museum of Denmark, according to The Independent.

that surprise

Found surprised both by documenting that people of European descent to 24,000 years ago had moved as far west as the area around Lake Baikal, and in that genetic material had similarities with today’s Native Americans, according to the New York Times.

Wilerslev has led the international research group’s work. The findings are published in the scientific journal Nature, and was recently presented at a conference on Native American ancestry, Santa Fe in New Mexico.

OLDTIDSBOPLASS: The area around Lake Baikal in Russia, scientists have made several Stone Age communities. Photo: MISHA Japaridze, AP

– Parts of genetic material can be found today in the people in the west Eurasian, and parts can be found today among Indians. The Indian genes are unique to Indians. However, we found no trace of east Asians, says Wilerslev.

Continued controversy

According to the article in Nature, researchers estimate that between 14 and 38 percent of the origin of today’s Indians has its roots in primitive man in Siberia.

Wilerslev emphasizes that found his not say anything about when people crossed from Asia to America. This has been a contentious issue among scientists in a number of years. Some believe that America was the people around 13,000 years ago, others believe that its population is older.