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The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia. [PDF]

Science, 2018
The Yamnaya expansions from the western steppe into Europe and Asia during the Early Bronze Age (~3000 BCE) are believed to have brought with them Indo-European languages and possibly horse husbandry.
Ahmad, Habib, Allentoft, Morten E, Baimukhanov, Nurbol, Barjamovic, Gojko, Bazaliiskii, Vladimir I, Biddanda, Arjun, Choin, Jeremy, de Barros Damgaard, Peter, de la Fuente, Constanza, Durbin, Richard, Evdokimov, Valeriy, Goriunova, OI, Gromov, Andrey, Gul, Nazish, Hameed, Abdul, Hemphill, Brian, Ilardo, Melissa, Iversen, Katrine Højholt, Kamm, Jack, Khokhar, Muhammad Hassan, Kristiansen, Kristian, Kroonen, Guus, Loman, Valeriy, Margaryan, Ashot, Martiniano, Rui, McKenzie, Catriona, Merz, Ilja, Merz, Victor, Moiseyev, Vyacheslav, Moreno-Mayar, J Víctor, Nielsen, Rasmus, Novembre, John, Omura, Sachihiro, Orlando, Ludovic, Outram, Alan K, Peyrot, Michaël, Polyakov, Andrei, Rasmussen, Simon, Samad, Abdul, Schroeder, Hannes, Seguin-Orlando, Andaine, Senyurt, Süleyman Yücel, Sikora, Martin, Sjögren, Karl-Göran, Ullah, Inam, Usmanova, Emma, Weber, Andrzej W, Willerslev, Eske, Yediay, Fulya Eylem, Zacho, Claus, Zaibert, Victor   +50 more
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Eneolithic, Yamnaya, Catacomb and Babyno Culture Cemeteries, Pidlisivka, Barrow 1, Yampil Region, Vinnitsa Oblast: Archaeometry, Chronometry and Taxonomy [PDF]

Baltic-Pontic Studies, 2015
Abstract The paper presents excavation results and analytical studies concerning the taxonomic classification of a funerary site identified with the communities of the early ‘barrow cultures’ settling the north-western Black Sea Coast in the 4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC.
Klochko, Viktor, Kośko, Aleksander, Razumov, Serhiy, Włodarczak, Piotr, Żurkiewicz, Danuta   +4 more
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Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA. [PDF]

Nat Genet
Long DNA segments shared between two individuals, known as identity-by-descent (IBD), reveal recent genealogical connections. Here we introduce ancIBD, a method for identifying IBD segments in ancient human DNA (aDNA) using a hidden Markov model and ...
Ringbauer H, Huang Y, Akbari A, Mallick S, Olalde I, Patterson N, Reich D.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2021
The transition from Stone to Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of major population movements originating from the Ponto-Caspian Steppe.
Saag L, Vasilyev SV, Varul L, Kosorukova NV, Gerasimov DV, Oshibkina SV, Griffith SJ, Solnik A, Saag L, D'Atanasio E, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Rootsi S, Kivisild T, Scheib CL, Tambets K, Kriiska A, Metspalu M.   +17 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Archaic Inventory in the Burials of the Yamnaya Culture in the Samara Trans-Volga Region and the Southern Ural

Археология евразийских степей
The authors systematizes all finds in the burials of the Yamnaya culture in the Volga-Ural interfluve that have certain signs of Eneolithic cultures. They include archaic ceramics, some jewelry made of shells, boar tusk and rarely items made of copper ...
Nina L. Morgunova, Natalya P. Salugina, Airat A. Faizullin   +2 more
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New Burial Assemblage of the Yamnaya Culture with a Cоpper Axe of the Utevka Type in the Orenburg Urals

Археология евразийских степей
The main purpose of this article is to present the burial of an adult male under barrow with a complex: a copper socketed ахе, a vessel of the huma type, a disk made of a piece of ochre, a child sacrifice. Finds of copper socketed axes are extremely rare
Nina L. Morgunova, Airat A. Fayzullin, Natalya P. Salugina   +2 more
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Chronology of an Elite Mound of the Yamnaya Culture Boldyrevo IV Burial Ground in the Orenburg Region According to Stratigraphy, Burial Rite and Radiocarbon Dating

Поволжская археология
The aim of this paper is to publish new radiocarbon dating data for three complexes stratified under one mound (mound No. 1 in the Boldyrevo IV burial ground in the Western Orenburg region), which are distinguished by the unusual nature of the burial in ...
Morgunova Nina L. , Faizullin Airat A.
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Yamnaya Culture Hoard of Metal Objects, Ivanivka, Lower Murafa: Autogenesis of ‘Dniester Copper/Bronze Metallurgy’

Baltic-Pontic Studies, 2018
Abstract In 2015 near the village of Ivonivka, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Region, Vinnytsia Oblast, a hoard of copper objects was found by chance by the River Murafa. The majority of objects belonging to the hoard were fashioned out of a rather pure copper with a combination of admixtures, which can be named ‘the Ivonivka group’.
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Not by Selection Alone: Expanding the Scope of Gene-Culture Coevolution. [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Gene‐culture coevolution (GCC)—an ambitious synthesis of biological and social sciences is often used to explain the evolution of key human traits. Despite the framework's broad conceptual appeal however, empirical evidence is often perceived as limited to a few key examples like lactase persistence.
Kasser SM, Lala KN, Fortunato L, Feldman MW.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Genetic Variability of Present-Day Bulgarians Captures Ancient and Recent Ancestral Contributions. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Thanks to its pivotal crossroad position, Bulgaria played a fundamental key role during all the migration processes that interested the continent through time. While the genetic variability of the country has been deeply investigated using uniparental markers, previous genome‐wide autosomal‐based surveys mainly consisted of wider ...
Sarno S, Piccini F, Abondio P, Cilli E, Kuyumdjian EM, Dimitrov NA, Dilov CD, De Fanti S, Ciani G, Gentilini D, Boattini A, Sazzini M, Pettener D, Luiselli D.   +13 more
europepmc   +2 more sources