Continue reading the main story. The genome of a young boy buried at Malâta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists.he first is that the boyâs DNA matches that of Western Europeans, showing that during the last Ice Age people from Europe had reached farther east across Eurasia than previously supposed. Though none of the Malâta boyâs skin or hair survives, his genes suggest he would have had brown hair, brown eyes and freckled skin.