Ancient Paleo-Siberian

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In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient Paleo-Siberian is the name given to an ancestral component that represents the lineage of the hunter-gatherer people of the 15th–10th millennia before present, in northern and northeastern Siberia. The Ancient Paleo-Siberian population is thought to have arisen from an Ancient East Asian lineage, which diverged from other East Asian populations sometime between 26kya to 36kya, which later merged with Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) sometime between 20 kya to 25 kya. The ANE themselves are described as the "result of a palaeolithic admixture" between ancient West Eurasians and East Eurasians. The source for the East Asian component among Ancient Paleo-Siberians is to date best represented by the Ancient Northern East Asian individual AR14K from the Amur region. Other studies define Ancient Paleo-Siberians by their distinct mixture of ANE, Ancient Northeast Asian and first Native American-related ancestries, especially in the context of mainland Northeast...

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