Siberian ice maiden dna model

The Siberian Ice Maiden Devochka is a mummy of a young Scythian woman from the 5th century BCE, found in 1993 in a kurgan of the Pazyryk culture in Republic of Altai, Russia.

The mummified remains of the “Ice Maiden,” a Scytho-Siberian young woman who lived on the Eurasian Steppes, were found undisturbed in a subterranean burial chamber.

DNA testing confirmed that the Scytho-Siberian maiden was NOT related to present-day peoples of the Altai.

It turns out that the maternal line of Devochka the Scythian Ice Maiden is HV2.

HV2 maternal DNA is a very rare haplogroup. It was found in 2 individuals from a Scythian grave site including the spectacularly preserved Ice Maiden Devochka.

Genetic studies showed that the Pazyryks were a part of Samoyedic family, with very strong elements of ancient Iranian-Caucasian substratum.

(Source: Tracing the Origin of the East-West Population Admixture in the Altai Region (Central Asia)

Today the highest occurrence of HV2 maternal lineag