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| Recent view on the Selenga River close to the archeological site Ust-Kyakhta-3. © G. Pavlenok |
Some 35,000 years before the origin myths in the Bible were being invented by Bronze Age Canaanite hill farmers, the ancestors of Native Americans were living in the Lake Baikal area of Siberia, and even dying of plague.
This was the conclusion of a massive study led by the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
As their press release explains:
Using human population genetics, ancient pathogen genomics and isotope analysis, a team of researchers assessed the population history of the Lake Baikal region, finding the deepest connection to date between the peoples of Siberia and the Americas. The current study, published in the journal Cell, also demonstrates human mobility, and hence connectivity, across Eurasia during the Early Bronze Age.
Modern humans have lived near Lake Baikal since the Upper Paleolithic, and have left behind a rich archaeological record. Ancient genomes from the region have revealed multiple genetic turnovers and admixture events, indicating that the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age was facilitated by human mobility and complex cultural interactions. The nature and timing of these interactions, however, remains largely unknown.
A new study published in the journal Cell reports the findings of 19 newly sequenced ancient human genomes from the region of Lake Baikal, including one of the oldest reported from that region. Led by the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the study illuminates the population history of the region, revealing deep connections with the First Peoples of the Americas, dating as far back as the Upper Paleolithic period, as well as connectivity across Eurasia during the Early Bronze Age.
Excavation in 1976 of the Ust'-Kyakhta-3 site located on right bank of the Selenga River in the vicinity of Ust-Kyakhta village in the Kyakhtinski Region of the Republic of Buryatia (Russia).
© A. P. Okladnikov
It's worth recalling at this point, if only to contrast the myths with the reality, that the people who wrote the Hebrew origin myths in the Bible believe Earth was just a few thousand years old and that the human population was reduced to 8 genetically closely-related individuals just about 4,000 years ago (at about the time people living in Northeast Siberia were dying of Yersinia pestis) who went on to repopulate a sterile planet.
If the Bible story were true, the people of Siberia, who later migrated to North America, would have had to travelled to Siberia from the Middle East on fast horses or some other means of fast transport. During the journey they would have to have forgotten all about Noah and the god who caused the genocidal flood their immediate ancestors had just survived, and diversified genetically at a speed unheard of today.
Of course, these early storytellers from the Middle East knew nothing of Siberia, Lake Baikal, the neolithic peoples who lived there or a land-bridge between Siberia and North America. Of such parochial ignorance are these idiotic origin myths made.
The astonishing thing is that there are adult alive today who find these Bible myths to be a more compelling description of real history than that being uncovered by modern archaeologists.
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