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First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2023
The origins of horseback riding remain elusive. Scientific studies show that horses were kept for their milk ~3500 to 3000 BCE, widely accepted as indicating domestication. However, this does not confirm them to be ridden.
Trautmann M, Frînculeasa A, Preda-Bălănică B, Petruneac M, Focşǎneanu M, Alexandrov S, Atanassova N, Włodarczak P, Podsiadło M, Dani J, Bereczki Z, Hajdu T, Băjenaru R, Ioniță A, Măgureanu A, Măgureanu D, Popescu AD, Sârbu D, Vasile G, Anthony D, Heyd V.   +20 more
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Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes. [PDF]

Nat Ecol Evol, 2022
Archaeological and archaeogenetic evidence points to the Pontic-Caspian steppe zone between the Caucasus and the Black Sea as the crucible from which the earliest steppe pastoralist societies arose and spread, ultimately influencing populations from ...
Scott A, Reinhold S, Hermes T, Kalmykov AA, Belinskiy A, Buzhilova A, Berezina N, Kantorovich AR, Maslov VE, Guliyev F, Lyonnet B, Gasimov P, Jalilov B, Eminli J, Iskandarov E, Hammer E, Nugent SE, Hagan R, Majander K, Onkamo P, Nordqvist K, Shishlina N, Kaverzneva E, Korolev AI, Khokhlov AA, Smolyaninov RV, Sharapova SV, Krause R, Karapetian M, Stolarczyk E, Krause J, Hansen S, Haak W, Warinner C.   +33 more
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Pottery from the Volga area in the Samara and South Urals region from Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age [PDF]

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
The paper studies the evolution of pottery from the early Eneolithic period to the Early Bronze Age in the Volga area near Samara and South Ural in accordance with the typological and technological features of the ceramics peculiar to the Samara culture
Nina L. Morgunova
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Gender, Age and Status in the Burial Complexes of the Yamnaya Culture Population of the Volga-Ural Region

Археология евразийских степей, 2023
The paper presents an analysis of gender–age pattern of the Yamnaya culture population of the Volga-Ural region according to the burial rite data. Based on the data on labor costs and inventory, as well as the disproportion in the burial rite in favor of
Fayzullin Airat A.
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Manufacturing Symbolism of Macrolytic Stone Tools in the Yamnaya Culture Funeral Rite of Southern Urals and Middle Volga Region

Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The paper summarizes for the first time a special study data of macrolithic stone tools from the burials of the Yamnaya culture in the Western Orenburg and the Samara Volga regions.
Nina L. Morgunova, Airat A. Faizullin
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Indo-European roots of the Middle Dnieper variant of the Yamnaya culture

Вестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета, 2023
Within the framework of the Indo-European discourse, the key issue is the linguistic status of the carriers of the Corded Ware cultures of the Bronze Age. Were they Indo-Europeans in the Neolithic, or did they become Indo-Europeans at some point in their
Konstantin Alexandrovich Alekseev
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On the status and selectivity of the infant burials of the Yamnaya Archaeological Culture of the Southern Urals (based on the excavation materials of the burial mound No. 1 of the Boldyrevo-4 group) [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023
Bioarchaeology is an important field of interdisciplinary research based upon the contextual study of anthropological materials. In particular, bioarchaeology of childhood appears to be the most specialised area of research, addressing quality of life ...
Morgunova N.L., Faizullin A.A. , Mustafin H.H., Alborova I.E., Kiseleva D.V., Chechetkina O.Yu., Mednikova M.B.   +6 more
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Сraniological data on the problem of relationship between populations of the Early Bronze Age Yamnaya and Afanasyevo cultures

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2016
This study focuses on the problem of the relationship between two distinctive Early Bronze Age cultures — Yamnaya of Eastern Europe and Afanasyevo of Southern Siberia; the issue is still very topical and appealing to a wide range of specialists in the ...
Khokhlov A.A., Solodovnikov K.N., Rykun M.P., Kravchenko G.G., Kitov E.P.   +4 more
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Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes Reveal Extensive Genetic Influence of the Steppe Pastoralists in Western Xinjiang. [PDF]

Front Genet, 2021
The population prehistory of Xinjiang has been a hot topic among geneticists, linguists, and archaeologists. Current ancient DNA studies in Xinjiang exclusively suggest an admixture model for the populations in Xinjiang since the early Bronze Age ...
Ning C, Zheng HX, Zhang F, Wu S, Li C, Zhao Y, Xu Y, Wei D, Wu Y, Gao S, Jin L, Cui Y.   +11 more
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Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2021
Europe’s prehistory oversaw dynamic and complex interactions of diverse societies, hitherto unexplored at detailed regional scales. Studying 271 human genomes dated ~4900 to 1600 BCE from the European heartland, Bohemia, we reveal unprecedented genetic ...
Papac L, Ernée M, Dobeš M, Langová M, Rohrlach AB, Aron F, Neumann GU, Spyrou MA, Rohland N, Velemínský P, Kuna M, Brzobohatá H, Culleton B, Daněček D, Danielisová A, Dobisíková M, Hložek J, Kennett DJ, Klementová J, Kostka M, Krištuf P, Kuchařík M, Hlavová JK, Limburský P, Malyková D, Mattiello L, Pecinovská M, Petriščáková K, Průchová E, Stránská P, Smejtek L, Špaček J, Šumberová R, Švejcar O, Trefný M, Vávra M, Kolář J, Heyd V, Krause J, Pinhasi R, Reich D, Schiffels S, Haak W.   +42 more
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