[blam]

" Their origin is probably Semitic though some references trace them back to as far away as India about 10,000 BC."

Makes sense to me as I'm beginning to think they (people with the red-headed gene) dispersed from Sundaland (or that region) in southeast Asia at the end of the Ice Age.

Stephen Oppenheimer (Eden In The East) believes the original Sumerians and Egyptians were refugees from the sunken Sundaland.

[muawiyah]

Regarding the initial story here Siberia is a really big place!