First ancient DNA from mainland Finland reveals origins of Siberian ancestry in region

Popular Archaeology ^ | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | Max Planck Institute

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Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Helsinki have analyzed the first ancient DNA from mainland Finland. As described in Nature Communications, ancient DNA was extracted from bones and teeth from a 3,500 year-old burial on the Kola Peninsula, Russia, and a 1,500 year-old water burial in Finland. The results reveal the possible path along which ancient people from Siberia spread to Finland and Northwestern Russia.

Researchers found the earliest evidence of Siberian ancestry in Fennoscandia in a population inhabiting the Kola Peninsula, in Northwestern Russia, dating to around 4,000 years ago. This genetic ancestry then later spread to populations living in Finland. The study also found that people genetically similar to present-day Saami people inhabited areas in much more southern parts of Finland than the Saami today.

For the present study, genome-wide genetic data from 11 individuals were retrieved. Eight individuals came from the Kola Peninsula, six from a burial dated to 3,500 years ago, and two from an 18th to 19th century Saami cemetery.

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Geographical location of the Ural-speaking populations. A variety of Uralic languages and linguistic tree of their relationship. The color on the map corresponds to the color of the language group. [Credit: Kristiina Tambets et al.]

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"Sneak peek" ping.

[dp0622]

What about Italians? Any Italians?

I usually start my posts on your threads with a bad joke to hide my utter ignorance of almost EVERY thread topic you post!

But I delight in learning about each and every one.

NICE to get away from politics for a while and read some incredible history and see some incredible pics!!

[nopardons]

BTT

[SunkenCiv]

I think my DNA results showed just a trace of Italy, but also Siberian, so, one never knows...

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Thanks! I'm going to ping all the stuff I've posted from the night shift, after I get home and sleep a while. :^)

[Covenantor]

So the Finno-Ugric linguistic group gets expanded from the old school trio of Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.

Was always curious about the Hungarians seemingly isolated from their northern linguistic relatives. This study shows the possible east-west migration from Siberia. Maybe there was a migratory segment that traveled south?

[NorseViking]

Yes, some traveled north and some traveled south. It is a long established fact that Finns and Hungarians are relative and both are revative to West Siberian tribes existing to this day.

[Leaning Right]

> Was always curious about the Hungarians seemingly isolated from their northern linguistic relatives. This study shows the possible east-west migration from Siberia. <

As a person of Hungarian descent, I wish I would have known about this sooner. Since Siberia is in Asia, I could have claimed to be Asian-American.

Who knows how far I could have gone with that? I might have even ended up as a professor at Harvard, just like Liz “Cherokee Nation” Warren.

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The Finno-Ugric model is apparently not the only one, merely the dominant one (I remember it from my high school days, for that matter). It's not unlikely that they have some distant common ancestry, or they could merely have the same pool of loan vocabulary etc. That's not something I'd have a way of knowing, I barely speak my own language...

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[mosesdapoet]

tanks

[Wuli]

Thanks for the post.

Particularly because it mentioned the Saami people - which many refer to as “Laplanders”.

It led to me researching them more, leading to the knowledge that the entered the geographic areas they are known to inhabit, before the Germanic tribes/clans that later became known to us today as the Swedes and Norwegians. Also, in Finland, the Saami traditionally occupied areas that the “Finns” did not.

When you see the traditional dwellings of the Saami, they look alot like the dwellings of the native Americans on the northern plains’ that we call teepees.

[TheRightGuy]

which color most likely relates to ancestry of elizabeth warren?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

What about Italians? Any Italians?

That boot over there in the Ugric Hungarian group looks Italian.

[blam]

Thanks.

You already know my family connection to the Sa'ami.

Here's and oldie:

Where Do The Finns Come From?

Renee Zellweger is one of my Sami relatives.

I still don't know why Scandinavian people have larger teeth than other Europeans.

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Some planet in the constellation Clorox.

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I did, knew you'd enjoy this one. :^)

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My pleasure.

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