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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Archaeology => Topic started by: Sanguine on June 17, 2019, 07:53:08 pm
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Alla Mashezerskaya maps artifacts in the area where the two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.
Credit: Elena Pavlova
A pair of children's teeth that were lost 31,000 years ago in Siberia led scientists to the discovery of a previously unknown population of ancient humans.
These people inhabited northeastern Siberia during the Ice Age and were genetically distinct from other groups in the region, researchers reported in a new study.
The scientists analyzed genetic data extracted from the teeth, along with DNA from ancient remains found at other sites in Siberia and central Russia. In doing so, they reconstructed 34 ancient genomes dating to between 31,000 and 600 years ago, piecing together the puzzle of how Paleolithic humans spread across Siberia, and then crossed over the Bering Land Bridge into the Americas. [Photos: Newfound Ancient Human Relative Discovered in Philippines]
The tiny teeth belonged to two unrelated male children...
https://www.livescience.com/65654-dna-ice-age-teeth-siberia.html (https://www.livescience.com/65654-dna-ice-age-teeth-siberia.html)
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That's very interesting. When I ran the snp tracker tool http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html (http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html) for one of my SNP's (I used R-U106) it showed a path that went thru eastern Siberia (SNP P-M45) that has an estimated age of 35,000 yrs BP. I think the site in this article is much further north than the path the tracker tool shows. I'd be curious to see any DNA results from those teeth.