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Map of East Asia and Siberia around 3500 BC |
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Tungusic migration from around the River Amur towards Lake Baikal and Siberia seems to have begun around 3500 BC, perhaps tentatively at first, and continuing over at least the next two or three millennia. Up to about 1,500 years earlier the Samoyedic groups of Uralic-speakers had started making the same journey from the opposite direction - the Urals - although it is highly unclear whether they were already fully or even partially in place in Siberia by the time the first Tungusic groups began to arrive. The earliest native inhabitants of the region - the Palaeo-Siberians - were largely submerged by these new arrivals, although there was some displacement and survival into modern times. The Nivkh of the Bering Sea coastline in today's Siberia form one such, now isolated, survival. A clickable version of this map is available for desktop displays. To select a kingdom, state, or tribe for further information, click on its name.
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