Journal article
Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe
Nature communications, v 8(1), pp 14615-14615
03 Mar 2017
PMID: 28256537
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Abstract
During the 1
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.
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- Title
- Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe
- Creators
- Martina Unterländer - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzFriso Palstra - Éco-AnthropologieIosif Lazaridis - Harvard UniversityAleksandr Pilipenko - Institute of Cytology and GeneticsZuzana Hofmanová - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzMelanie Groß - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzChristian Sell - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzJens Blöcher - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzKarola Kirsanow - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzNadin Rohland - Harvard UniversityBenjamin Rieger - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzElke Kaiser - Freie Universität BerlinWolfram Schier - Freie Universität BerlinDimitri Pozdniakov - Institute of Cytology and GeneticsAleksandr Khokhlov - Samara State University of Social Sciences and EducationMyriam Georges - Éco-AnthropologieSandra Wilde - Johannes Gutenberg University MainzAdam Powell - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human HistoryEvelyne Heyer - Éco-AnthropologieMathias Currat - University of GenevaDavid Reich - Broad InstituteZainolla Samashev - Institute of ArchaeologyHermann Parzinger - Prussian Cultural Heritage FoundationVyacheslav I Molodin - Institute of Cytology and GeneticsJoachim Burger - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Publication Details
- Nature communications, v 8(1), pp 14615-14615
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Grant note
- R01 GM100233 / NIGMS NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Surgery
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000395279800001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85014535741
- Other Identifier
- 991020099635604721
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