Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe
| Autor: | Joachim Burger, Evelyne Heyer, David Reich, Dimitri Pozdniakov, Friso P. Palstra, Zuzana Hofmanová, Nadin Rohland, Adam Powell, Mathias Currat, Melanie Groß, Martina Unterländer, Wolfram Schier, Christian Sell, Zainolla Samashev, Jens Blöcher, Sandra Wilde, Vyacheslav I. Molodin, Aleksandr Khokhlov, A. S. Pilipenko, Hermann Parzinger, Karola Kirsanow, Myriam Georges, Elke Kaiser, Benjamin Rieger, Iosif Lazaridis |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Genetics [Boston], Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS), Harvard School of Public Health, Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (EAE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, Université de Genève (UNIGE), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (BROAD INSTITUTE), Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS)-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston], Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Éco-Anthropologie (EA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Gene Flow
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| Zdroj: | Nature Communications Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, 2017, 8 (1), pp.14615. ⟨10.1038/ncomms14615⟩ Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2017) Nature Communications, Vol. 8 (2017) P. 14615 |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| Popis: | During the 1st millennium before the Common Era (BCE), nomadic tribes associated with the Iron Age Scythian culture spread over the Eurasian Steppe, covering a territory of more than 3,500 km in breadth. To understand the demographic processes behind the spread of the Scythian culture, we analysed genomic data from eight individuals and a mitochondrial dataset of 96 individuals originating in eastern and western parts of the Eurasian Steppe. Genomic inference reveals that Scythians in the east and the west of the steppe zone can best be described as a mixture of Yamnaya-related ancestry and an East Asian component. Demographic modelling suggests independent origins for eastern and western groups with ongoing gene-flow between them, plausibly explaining the striking uniformity of their material culture. We also find evidence that significant gene-flow from east to west Eurasia must have occurred early during the Iron Age. The Scythian culture was widespread throughout the Eurasian Steppe during the 1st millennium BCE. This study provides genetic evidence for two independent origins for the Scythians in the eastern and western steppe with varying proportions of Yamnaya and East Asian ancestry, and gene flow among them. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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