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Reconstruction of Original Content of the Kurgan Funeral Vessels Based on Microbial and Enzymatic Parameters

Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The original content of ritual vessels from the burials of the two kurgan cemeteries was reconstructed using the multisubstrate testing system of microbial respiration and enzymatic activity of the soil from the pots.
Natalia Kashirskaya, Tatiana Khomutova, Kamilla Dushchanova, Flavio Fornasier, Denis Kovalev   +4 more
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The prehistoric origins of the domestic horse and horseback riding

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2023
The findings of Librado et al. (2021) show that modern domestic horses (DOM2) emerged in the lower Don-Volga region. They imply that horseback riding drove selection that resulted in these horses and fuelled their initial dispersal, and also that DOM2 ...
Markku Niskanen
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Small grassland patches are hotspots for medicinal plants and associated phytochemical diversity in European agricultural landscapes

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 231-244, January 2026.
Besides being important components of landscape‐level biodiversity, medicinal plants are essential resources for traditional and modern healthcare. However, human‐driven biodiversity loss has resulted in the decline of medicinal plant populations. By maintaining connections between nature, culture, and people, sacred natural sites can help counteract ...
Rita Engel, Orsolya Valkó, Attila Lengyel, Ádám Bede, Balázs Deák   +4 more
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Chronology and cultural affiliation of the early burials of the Tazhegul burial ground

Gumilyov Journal of History
This paper introduces materials obtained during scientific research at the Tazhegul archaeological complex. The complex is located near the village of Abylaykhan in the Burabay district of the Akmola region.
K. Auezov , S. Yarygin , S. Sakenov, G. Kulmaganbetova   +3 more
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Rescue Excavations of Bronze Age Barrows in Vetrino Region, northeast Bulgaria

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
The aim of this study is to present the results of the rescue excavations of three Bronze Age barrows in Vetrino region, Northeast Bulgaria. Fourteen Early Bronze Age graves (4th– 3rd millennium BC), two of Middle Bronze Age date (first half of the 2nd ...
Alexandrov, S., Slavchev, V., Tonkova, E.   +2 more
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The genetic and cultural impact of the Steppe migration into Europe

Annals of Human Biology, 2021
Background During the early 3rd millennium BCE migration from Pontic Steppe, mainly related to Yamnaya culture, has affected European populations both culturally and genetically, however, it has long been debated to what extent this migration was male ...
Gabriele Scorrano, Fulya Eylem Yediay, Thomaz Pinotti, Motahareh Feizabadifarahani, Kristian Kristiansen   +4 more
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Utilizing Indigenous Animal Genetic Resources—Based on Research Into Indigenous Cattle Breeds in the Basque Country in Northern Spain and Indigenous Pig Breeds in Vietnam

Animal Science Journal, Volume 96, Issue 1, January/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity, climate change, and food security are closely related and increasing worldwide concerns. Therefore, sustainable productivity and changes to the livestock industry are required for the maintenance or amelioration of the global environment and the future of humanity.
Masaaki Taniguchi
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Population, culture history, and the dynamics of change in European prehistory★

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1085-1101, December 2024.
Abstract Despite many attacks on its shortcomings, culture history has remained in practice the dominant framework for describing and interpreting European prehistory. It has gained even more salience in recent years because the new information coming from ancient DNA about the genetic ancestry of individuals in prehistory seems to show that this ...
Stephen Shennan
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Genome‐wide population affinities and signatures of adaptation in hydruntines, sussemiones and Asian wild asses

Molecular Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 19, October 2024.
Abstract The extremely rich palaeontological record of the horse family, also known as equids, has provided many examples of macroevolutionary change over the last ~55 Mya. This family is also one of the most documented at the palaeogenomic level, with hundreds of ancient genomes sequenced.
Jianfei Pan, Xuexue Liu, Mateusz Baca, Laure Calvière‐Tonasso, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Loreleï Chauvey, Gaétan Tressières, Aude Perdereau, Jean‐Marc Aury, Pedro H. Oliveira, Patrick Wincker, Aida Abdykanova, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Andrey B. Belinskiy, Eudald Carbonell, Hossein Davoudi, Jaime Lira Garrido, Allan S. Gilbert, Taylor Hermes, Christina Warinner, Alexey A. Kalmykov, David Lordkipanidze, Paweł Mackiewicz, Azadeh F. Mohaseb, Kristine Richter, Nuritdin Sayfullaev, Beth Shapiro, Svetlana Shnaider, John Southon, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Geoffrey D. Summers, Eline Naomi van Asperen, Nikoloz Vanishvili, Eden A. Hill, Pavel Kuznetsov, Sabine Reinhold, Svend Hansen, Marjan Mashkour, Rémi Berthon, William Timothy Treal Taylor, Jean‐Luc Houle, Evon Hekkala, Danijela Popović, Ludovic Orlando   +44 more
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Diet and Mobility in the Corded Ware of Central Europe.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Isotopic investigations of two cemetery populations from the Corded Ware Culture in southern Germany reveal new information on the dating of these graves, human diet during this period, and individual mobility. Corded Ware Culture was present across much
Karl-Göran Sjögren, T Douglas Price, Kristian Kristiansen   +2 more
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