Real Hyperboreans? Ancient North Eurasians

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.

Reading list:
Ancient Admixture in Human History
Mathieson et al. 2015 - Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians.
blonde hair and light skin selection
Native American DNA

EDIT: a very bad and poorly researched book somehow published by Routledge in 2020 cited this video as "pseudoscience" yet none of the authors (Hermansson, Lawrence, Mulhall, Murdoch) are qualified geneticists, historians or archaeologists nor were they capable of providing a single example of what was wrong with it. I have no idea how such a ridiculous claim made it past peer review but it shows that peer review means nothing these days.

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[prcprc]

By the way, a small correction- Siberian hunter-gatherers did indeed have genes for blond hair even in Upper Palaeolithic. Afontova Gora 3 carried derived allele for blond hair.
As for western hunter-gatherers (Cro-Magnons): they most probably didn't have dark skin. In contrast to eye/hair color, skin color has lot more genes that control it. So for example, when we use genetics to predict hair pigmentation, we get insane results such as Orcadians being the darkest Europeans by skin, even though they are among lightest in reality. Yakuts and Amur Manchus, who are light-skinned for Asian standards, lack *known* genes for light skin among Asians.
What I think it means is that simply Cro-Magnons didn't have light skin genes which majority of modern Europeans have (which came via Indo-Europeans and Neolithic farmers), but they had light skin in reality. That fact is verifiable via anthropology- modern Europeans of Upper Palaeolithic phenotype are on average lightest-skinned.

Also, not all WHG had blue eyes. One from Hummervikholmen in Norway was brown-eyed, and one from Grotte du Bichon in Switzerland had them as well. Even most of blue-eyed ones are far from having 70+% of probability for light eyes, and their ancestors (Upper Palaeolithic Europeans) were also mainly brown-eyed. They certainly had genes for blue eyes, and they suddenly became common (for whatever the reason) in Mesolithic. Indo-Europeans had genes for light eyes as well (in even greater measure, I think), because some IE cultures (like Andronovo) were almost uniformly light-eyed.

As for comparisons of ancient populations and modern peoples using "autosomal calculators", I think they are inherently flawed. They ignore many phenomena, most important one being genetic drift. To put it shortly: settled, stable populations with big effective population size (not to be confused with total population size) will have more similarity to an ancient group, even if they don't really descend much from it, than partitioned, unstable, quarrelsome populations who migrate often, who, although closer to a certain ancient group by descendance, experience much higher genetic drift than former, and hence appear more genetically removed from their predominant ancestral population.
That's why, for example, some non-European populations score "highest IE" (even though Europeans look the most like IE, and those non-Euro populations don't). Or that's why, for example, Balts and Basques score "most WHG", despite both of them looking nothing like Cro-Magnons.
And that's exactly why I think that physical anthropology is best tool in determining from which ancient group do we have highest amount of descent. "If it looks like a dog, walks like a dog, and barks like a dog- then it is a dog". Those researches are useful for tracking direct lineages (Y-DNA and mtDNA) and determining some phenotypical traits (such as pigmentation), but, at least currently, not for comparing them autosomally with modern populations.
Lastly, I would like to ask you to watch video I have uploaded (intended as VR to Varg), as I have talked quite a bit about European descent from these three fundamental groups in it.

Regards

[simmdevereaux]

I’m a Native American from the Blackfeet tribe and hearing this was pretty awesome, just wanna say hi to my Eurasian brothers and sisters

[ReagueOfRegends]

It brings me great joy that some people will go against the grain of normality and conformity to show thousands of people their folk's real, genuine history. Thanks mate.

[TheGoldenOne]

>Tfw no glorious wholly mammoth to ride and utilise to trample your political enemies underfoot with.

[amanduswestin]

It's pretty crazy that mammoths were still around when the pyramids were built!

[shaptile]

What absolutely blows my mind is that you can still draw a connection between old European myths and Inuit myths due to this connection

[A_Koenig]

It's absolutley fascinating to see all these old theorems about the Indo-Europeans being validated by modern genetic science. When I first became interested in the topic about 8 years ago, things like the Kurgan hypothesis were still considered... well, a hypothesis.

[adevomusic]

0:40 'and, that was based.'

[greatnorthernadventures]

“...The Arctic origins of the Aryan people, and that was based”
Yes, yes it was.

[turnthonkee]

You're the only person that has ever made me even remotely interested in genetic study and exoteric Aryan mythology, so keep up the good work!

[Etheldreda-]

Your channel just gets better and better.

[highplainshollarhomestead]

The real question we have to ask ourselves...."Will be still be here in 10, 000 years if we dont stop apologizing for our success?"

[Ciaurrix]

Who were the ancient north eurasians? *points at camera*
Let's find out

[nickspence]

Great video I enjoy hearing about European prehistory

[lookman-]

The story of the Hyperboreans comes from Greek sources who said they lived beyond the "North Wind" when we get their name. They also brought stories about giants and ran a missionary religion across northern Eurasia. The giants are likely sourced from the the dinosaur bone fields of the Gobi desert. Bones were used instead of timber for house building in the tundra.
We have a description of the Hyperborean land as travelling over mountains. The ancient temple at the Ness of Brogdar in Orkney, may be their centre. On occasions there they could see the aurora Borealis (or Northern Lights)

[shdwbnndbyyt]

Note that much of our history has literally underwater for thousands of years, on what is now called the continental shelves...

[hesiod]

Been reading some Vedic/Hindu literature and I see strong parallels between European (especially Nordic) deities and Hindu ones. Example: in Rig-Veda 10.22.3-4 or 10.96. Indra is described as having blonde hair and carrying a hammer and is associated with thunder/lightening... wonder who that could be? ;)

[marcopervo]

The relative robustness of North Eurasians could have also been an adaptive trait to provide protection to the core in a harsh, cold climate. Shorter limbs relative to height would have assisted blood flow to the extremities, preventing frostbite. It also accentuates relative bulk, as it's easier to gain muscular strength when exercising with shorter limbs. This same physique is also a common among Caucasus peoples, and this combination of traits may explain why so many of the top power lifters are from East Europe.

[Jw]

FTW when you realise all 12 years in school learning was a bunch of lies .

[whilomforge]

I am anxious to see how large your channel grows. Your insight, and presentation is second to none.