A genetic study has revealed the existence of a previously unknown hunter-gatherer group that lived in Siberia upwards of 10,000 years ago.
Researchers investigating prehistoric DNA have discovered a mysterious group of hunter-gatherers that lived in Siberia perhaps more than 10,000 years ago.
However, much remains unknown about the genetic makeup of the people who lived in this key region at that time. This is because prehistoric human remains with enough DNA to examine from this region"are extremely rare and hard to find," study senior author Cosimo Posth , an assistant professor in archaeo- and paleogenetics at the University of Tübingen in Germany, told Live Science.
The scientists discovered that a previously unknown group of hunter-gatherers in the Altai was"a mixture between two distinct groups that lived in Siberia during the last Ice Age," Posth said. DNA from these prehistoric hunter-gatherers was found in many later communities across North Asia, from the Bronze Age to the present day,"showing how great the mobility of those foraging communities was," he added.
Study lead author Ke Wang , a junior professor in anthropology and human genetics at Fudan University in China, was most surprised by the findings concerning a man's remains in Nizhnetytkesken Cave in the Altai, who was found with a religious costume and artifacts one might expect of a shaman.
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