Investigating the effects of prehistoric migrations in Siberia: genetic variation and the origins of Yakuts

• Main Authors: Pakendorf, Brigitte, Novgorodov, Innokentij, Osakovskij, Vladimir, Danilova, Al’bina, Protod’jakonov, Artur, Stoneking, Mark
• Other Authors: Dynamique Du Langage (DDL), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Evolutionary Genetics
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology; Sakha; The ''Y''; Yakut; Yakuts; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-02006826

International audience The Yakuts (also known as Sakha), Turkic-speaking cattle- and horse-breeders, inhabit a vast territory in Central and northeastern Siberia. On the basis of the archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic evidence, they are assumed to have migrated north from their original are...