Approximate location of the Ancient North Eurasians c. 24,000~16,000 BP.[3][4][5]
In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) is the name given to an ancestral component that represents the lineage of the people of the Mal'ta–Buret' culture (c. 24,000 BP) and populations closely related to them, such as the Upper Paleolithic individuals from Afontova Gora in Siberia.[6][7] Genetic studies also revealed that the ANE are closely related to the remains of the preceding Yana culture (c. 32,000 BP), which were named Ancient North Siberians (ANS). Ancient North Eurasians are predominantly of West Eurasian ancestry (related to European Cro-Magnons and ancient and modern peoples in West Asia) who arrived in Siberia via the "northern route", but also derive a significant amount of their ancestry (c. 1/3) from an East Eurasian source, having arrived to Siberia via the "southern route".[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][a][18]
Around 20,000 to 25,000 years ago, a branch of Ancient North Eurasian people mixed with Ancient East Asians, which led to the emergence of Ancestral Native American, Ancient Beringian and Ancient Paleo-Siberian populations. It is unknown exactly where this population admixture took place, and two opposing theories have put forth different migratory scenarios that united the Ancient North Eurasians with ancient East Asian populations.[19]
ANE ancestry has spread throughout Eurasia and the Americas in various migrations since the Upper Paleolithic, and more than half of the world's population today derives between 5 and 42% of their genomes from the Ancient North Eurasians.[21] Significant ANE ancestry can be found in Native Americans, as well as in Europe, South Asia, Central Asia, and Siberia. It has been suggested that their mythology may have featured narratives shared by both Indo-European and some Native American cultures, such as the existence of a metaphysical world tree and a fable in which a dog guards the path to the afterlife.[22]
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^Massilani D, Skov L, Hajdinjak M, Gunchinsuren B, Tseveendorj D, Yi S, et al. (30 October 2020). "Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians". Science. 370 (6516): 579–583. doi:10.1126/science.abc1166. ISSN0036-8075. PMID33122380. Fig. 2 Simplified demographic model including the Salkhit individual and other Eurasians older than 30,000 years: 25-33% geneflow from Salkhit to Yana, but Salkhit already had 22-26% gene flow from Ancient West Eurasians
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^ZHANG M, PING W (15 June 2023). 古基因组揭示史前欧亚大陆现代人复杂遗传历史 [Ancient genomes reveal the complex genetic history of Prehistoric Eurasian modern humans]. 人类学学报 人类学学报 (in Chinese). 42 (3): 412–421. doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2023.0010. ISSN1000-3193. 以发现于西伯利亚东北部约31.6 kaBP的Yana个体为代表的古西伯利亚北部人群(Ancient North Siberians, ANS)。该人群是具有约71%的欧洲祖源成分和29%的亚洲祖源成分的独立人群[2]。
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