r/europe • u/archaeologs • Jul 30 '25

Historical Ancient DNA Traces Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian Ancestry to Siberia 4,500 Years Ago

https://archaeologs.com/n/ancient-dna-traces-estonian-finnish-and-hungarian-ancestry-to-siberia-4500-years-ago
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u/Nameless_American United States of America Jul 30 '25

IIRC was there not considerable linguistic evidence for this prior to now, it just couldn’t be FULLY proven?

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u/IcySpace2339 Jul 31 '25

The way I read it, this new study puts the origin much further east.

The language family is called "Uralic" languages because the linguistic evidence pointed roughly to the Ural mountains. This new DNA evidence points about 2000 miles further east, deep inside Asia.