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Homo sapiens reached Central Asia by 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. The Tibetan Plateau is thought to have been reached by 38,000 years ago. [7] [8] [9] The currently oldest modern human sample found in northern Central Asia, is a 45,000-year-old remain, which was genetically closest to ancient and modern East Asians, but his lineage died out quite early.
In terms of Asian people, there is an abundance of ethnic groups in Asia, with adaptations to the climate zones of the continent, which include arctic, subarctic, temperate, subtropical or tropical, as well as extensive desert regions in Central and Western Asia.
a With population over 500,000 people. Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and European Russia in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, [4] and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Siberia in the north.
The authors suggested that central Asian nomadic populations may have been Turkicized by an East Asian minority elite, resulting in a small but detectable increase in East Asian ancestry. However, these authors also found that Türkic period individuals were extremely genetically diverse, with some individuals being of near complete West ...
Huna people. Hunas or Huna (Middle Brahmi script: Hūṇā) was the name given by the ancient Indians to a group of Central Asian tribes who, via the Khyber Pass, entered the Indian subcontinent at the end of the 5th or early 6th century. The Hunas occupied areas as far south as Eran and Kausambi, greatly weakening the Gupta Empire. [2]
The Central Asian people who called themselves Kushana, were among the conquerors of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom during the 2nd century BC, [62] and are widely believed to have originated as a dynastic clan or tribe of the Yuezhi.
The Saka tribe of the Massagetae/ Tigraxaudā rose to power in the 8th to 7th centuries BC, when they migrated from the east into Central Asia, [53] from where they expelled the Scythians, another nomadic Iranian tribe to whom they were closely related, after which they came to occupy large areas of the region beginning in the 6th century BC. [42]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 September 2024. Oghuz Turkic ethnic group of Central Asia This article is about the Central Asian ethnic group. For other ethnic groups, see Turkmen (disambiguation) § Ethnic groups. Ethnic group Turkmens Türkmenler Түркменлер توركمنلر Turkmens in folk costume at the 20th ...