Native Americans are of Siberian origin

Modern Indians inherited 38% of genetic genes from European ancestors who moved to Siberia from tens of thousands of years ago. That's the conclusion of an international team of scientists after analyzing DNA from the remains of a child who lived more than 20,000 years ago in a shelter in East Siberia.

Scientists from Russia, Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the US have established genetic connections between Native Americans - also known as Indians, with Siberian residents. Researchers believe that the descendants of the Eurasian continent's western inhabitants during the coldest period of the Ice Age moved farther east than previously assumed. At some point, Western Europeans and Eastern Asians met and the result of their association was those who later settled in both Americas.

American Indians.(Photo: antediluviana.tumblr.com)

The basis of the study is based on DNA analysis taken from a boy's finger bone, stored at a Hermitage museum in St Petersburg. This is one of the most ancient relics of modern humans still preserved today. The boy lived about 24,000 years ago at the end of the Old Stone Age, not far from Lake Baikal in the southern part of Eastern Siberia.

According to preliminary analysis, the boy's DNA belongs to the "haplogroup U" group . This group can be found in the Paleolithic breed in West Asia and Europe but not in East Asia. Next, scientists were surprised by a second, more detailed genetic analysis that found some of the ancient boy's DNA elements could only be found in the DNA of modern Indians.

This phenomenon can be explained as follows: during the Ice Age, a part of the population in East Asia moved north. In Siberia, they met people who were traveling from the west of the Eurasian continent to the east. Form a situation where two tribes blend together. Finally, their common descendants made a trip to the United States.

Previously, scientists had previously hypothesized that Native Americans were of Asian origin. The new study sheds light on the geographic and genetic picture of ancient historical processes.