Back Sane ke Sibiria AVK Pueblos indígenas de Siberia Spanish مردم بومی سیبری Persian Siperian alkuperäiskansat Finnish Peuples indigènes de Sibérie French Penduduk asli Siberia ID Qutliq Inupiak シベリア先住民 Japanese Домородни народи во Сибир Macedonian Povos indígenas da Sibéria Portuguese
Коренные народы Сибири | |
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| Total population | |
| 1.6–1.8 million[1] 5% of the total Siberian population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Siberia | |
| Languages | |
| Russian (lingua franca) Ainu, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Mongolic, Nivkh, Tungusic, Turkic, Uralic, Yeniseian (Ket), and Yukaghir languages | |
| Religion | |
| Siberian Shamanism, Tengrism, Tibetan Buddhism, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Sunni Islam |
Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia. As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians (Siberiaks) and other Slavs. However, there remains a slowly increasing number of Indigenous groups, accounting for about 5% of the total Siberian population (about 1.6–1.8 million),[1] some of which are closely genetically related to Indigenous peoples of the Americas.[2]
- ^ a b "Национальный состав населения". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
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Zimmer, Carl (5 June 2019). "Who Were the Ancestors of Native Americans? A Lost People in Siberia, Scientists Say". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
Dr. Willerslev's team found DNA in the Kolyma skull as well. A small fraction of that individual's ancestry came from Ancient North Siberians. But most of it came from a new population. Dr. Willerslev and his colleagues call them the Ancient Paleo-Siberians.
The DNA of the Ancient Paleo-Siberians is remarkably similar to that of Native Americans. Dr. Willerslev estimates that Native Americans can trace about two-thirds of their ancestry to these previously unknown people.
One reason that the Ancient Paleo-Siberians were unknown until now is that they were mostly replaced by a third population of people with a different East Asian ancestry. This group moved into Siberia only in the past 10,000 years — and they are the progenitors of most living Siberians.