Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia

J Blöcher, M Brami, IS Feinauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions

CC Wang, S Reinhold, A Kalmykov, A Wissgott… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of Eurasian 'steppe ancestry'as a
mixture of Eastern and Caucasus hunter-gatherers. However, it remains unclear when and …

[HTML][HTML] Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities

GA Gnecchi-Ruscone, Z Rácz, L Samu, T Szeniczey… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract From ad 567–568, at the onset of the Avar period, populations from the Eurasian
Steppe settled in the Carpathian Basin for approximately 250 years. Extensive sampling for …

Ancient genomes suggest the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe as the source of western Iron Age nomads

M Krzewińska, GM Kılınç, A Juras, D Koptekin… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
For millennia, the Pontic-Caspian steppe was a connector between the Eurasian steppe and
Europe. In this scene, multidirectional and sequential movements of different populations …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient genomes provide insights into family structure and the heredity of social status in the early Bronze Age of southeastern Europe

A Žegarac, L Winkelbach, J Blöcher, Y Diekmann… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Twenty-four palaeogenomes from Mokrin, a major Early Bronze Age necropolis in
southeastern Europe, were sequenced to analyse kinship between individuals and to better …

Population genomics of stone age eurasia

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Refoyo-Martínez… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The transitions from foraging to farming and later to pastoralism in Stone Age Eurasia (c. 11-
3 thousand years before present, BP) represent some of the most dramatic lifestyle changes …

[PDF][PDF] From social to genetic structures in central Asia

R Chaix, L Quintana-Murci, T Hegay, MF Hammer… - Current biology, 2007 - cell.com
Pastoral and farmer populations, who have coexisted in Central Asia since the fourth
millennium BC [1], present not only different lifestyles and means of subsistence but also …

[HTML][HTML] Human evolution in Siberia: from frozen bodies to ancient DNA

E Crubézy, S Amory, C Keyser, C Bouakaze… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Background The Yakuts contrast strikingly with other populations from Siberia due
to their cattle-and horse-breeding economy as well as their Turkic language. On the basis of …

[HTML][HTML] Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age

M Chyleński, P Makarowicz, A Juras… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The demographic history of East-Central Europe after the Neolithic period remains poorly
explored, despite this region being on the confluence of various ecological zones and …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals

L Skov, S Peyrégne, D Popli, LNM Iasi, T Devièse… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic analyses of Neanderthals have previously provided insights into their population
history and relationship to modern humans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, but the social organization of …