People used to believe in an Arctic polar origin myth of the Aryan people. Sounds like nonsense but the story does resemble the truth about a people scientists are calling "Ancient North Eurasians" (ANE)
About 50% of the Yamnaya DNA came from ANE via two intermediate population known as Eastern Hunter Gatherers and Caucasian hunter gatherers. Their genes were originally discovered through the genome of a Siberian boy who died over 20,000 years ago referred to as either Mal'ta boy or MA-1.
The ANE lived on the mammoth steppe of Siberia and hunted megafauna. Maybe the Aryans remembered their Arctic ice age origin as large mammoth hunting ice age men. Watch the video to find out more!
