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

ABSTRACT: 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 where this ancestry arose and whether it was related to a horizon of cultural innovations in the 4th millennium BCE that subsequently facilitated the advance of pastoral societies in Eurasia. Here we generated genome-wide SNP data from 45 prehistoric individuals along a 3000-year temporal transect in the North Caucasus. We observe a genetic separation between the groups of the Caucasus and those of the adjacent steppe. The northern Caucasus groups are genetically similar to contemporaneous populations south of it, suggesting human movement across the mountain range during the Bronze Age. The steppe groups from Yamnaya and subsequent pastoralist cultures show evidence for previously undetected farmer-related ancestry from different contact zones, while Steppe Maykop individuals harbour additional Upper Palaeolithic Siberian and Native American related ancestry.

SUBMITTER: Wang CC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360191 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Wang Chuan-Chao CC Reinhold Sabine S Kalmykov Alexey A Wissgott Antje A Brandt Guido G Jeong Choongwon C Cheronet Olivia O Ferry Matthew M Harney Eadaoin E Keating Denise D Mallick Swapan S Rohland Nadin N Stewardson Kristin K Kantorovich Anatoly R AR Maslov Vladimir E VE Petrenko Vladimira G VG Erlikh Vladimir R VR Atabiev Biaslan Ch BC Magomedov Rabadan G RG Kohl Philipp L PL Alt Kurt W KW Pichler Sandra L SL Gerling Claudia C Meller Harald H Vardanyan Benik B Yeganyan Larisa L Rezepkin Alexey D AD Mariaschk Dirk D Berezina Natalia N Gresky Julia J Fuchs Katharina K Knipper Corina C Schiffels Stephan S Balanovska Elena E Balanovsky Oleg O Mathieson Iain I Higham Thomas T Berezin Yakov B YB Buzhilova Alexandra A Trifonov Viktor V Pinhasi Ron R Belinskij Andrej B AB Reich David D Hansen Svend S Krause Johannes J Haak Wolfgang W

Nature communications 20190204 1

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 where this ancestry arose and whether it was related to a horizon of cultural innovations in the 4<sup>th</sup> millennium BCE that subsequently facilitated the advance of pastoral societies in Eurasia. Here we generated genome-wide SNP data from 45 prehistoric individuals along a 3000-year temporal transect in the North Cau ...[more]

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