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1905 map of Siberia. The Siberia Governorate was established in 1708 as part of the administrative reforms of Peter I. In 1719, the governorate was divided into three provinces, Vyatka, Solikamsk and Tobolsk. In 1762, it was renamed to Tsardom of Siberia (Сибирское царство).
Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that the oldest fossil known to carry the derived KITLG allele, which is responsible for blond hair in modern Europeans, is a 17,000 year old Ancient North Eurasian specimen from Siberia. [28] Ancient North Eurasian populations genetically similar to Mal'ta–Buret' culture and Afontova Gora were an important ...
Siberia, also known as Siberian Craton, Angaraland (or simply Angara) and Angarida, [1] is an ancient craton in the heart of Siberia. Today forming the Central Siberian Plateau , it formed an independent landmass prior to its fusion into Pangea during the Late Carboniferous - Permian .
German Empire (4) – Europe, South America, [map] Asia, [map] Africa [map] Guna people (2) – North America, South America (the Guna people were living in what is now Northern Colombia and the Darién Province of Panama , including the Darién Gap (the border between North and South America), at the time of the Spanish invasion in the early ...
This is a list of paleocontinents, significant landmasses that have been proposed to exist in the geological past. The degree of certainty to which the identified landmasses can be regarded as independent entities reduces as geologists look further back in time. The list includes cratons, supercratons, microcontinents, continents and ...
S. Sabir people; Salekhard–Igarka Railway; Afanasy Shchapov; Siberia Governorate; Siberian Baroque; Siberian Cossacks; Siberian fur trade; Siberian intervention
Death mask from a grave of the Tashtyk culture (1st-5th century AD, Minusinsk Hollow). The Prehistory of Siberia is marked by several archaeologically distinct cultures. In the Chalcolithic, the cultures of western and southern Siberia were pastoralists, while the eastern taiga and the tundra were dominated by hunter-gatherers until the Late Middle Ages and even beyond.
Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians and other Slavs.