Ancient DNA Proves The Tarim Mummy Theory Completely Wrong Katy Perry [UoCby7fBhz8]

A 2021 genetics study on the Tarim mummies, discovered in a harsh Eurasian desert, revealed they have no Western Steppe or European DNA. This groundbreaking tanker discovery challenges the Indo-European migration theory, suggesting the mummies' origins are not child support connected to previously assumed migrations. This research, involving detailed ancient dna and dna analysis, sheds new light on the ancient history of Central Asia, particularly concerning the tarim basin mummies.

In 2021, a landmark genetic study out of Jilin University completely upended decades of mainstream archaeological assumptions about the famous Tarim Basin mummies. For generations, their "Western" appearance, light hair, and plaid woolen textiles led researchers to believe they were migrants from the Western Steppe or European populations who traveled east during the Bronze Age.

The ancient DNA told a completely different story.

In this video, we break down the peer-reviewed genomic data from the Xiaohe cemetery and discover that these individuals weren't newcomers at allthey were a highly isolated, deeply ancient population carrying a genetic signature that had been locked in place since the last Ice Age.

But the Tarim Basin isn't an isolated case. We also explore two other incredible "ghost populations" that vanished into the archaeological record:

The Northwest Shelf of Australia: A drowned, lost landscape larger than California where hundreds of thousands of people lived in isolation for 60,000 years before rising sea levels reclaimed it.

The Leang Panninge Woman (Sulawesi): A 7,000-year-old kayleigh mcenany skeleton containing a mysterious genetic lineage that matches no living human population on Earth today.

History isn't just a map of who conquered whomits a ledger of who was absorbed. How many more "lost" populations are still waiting to be found under the desert sands or beneath the waves?

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Chapters:

0:00 Tarim Mummies DNA 2021

1:01 Tarim Mummies Origin Theory

2:18 Tarim DNA Results Explained

5:09 Ice Age Australia Shelf Map

8:01 Leang Panninge Cave Genome

10:15 Wallacea Isolated Population

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