The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia
Date
2018Author
Omura, Sachihiro
Usmanova, Emma
Hemphill, Brian
Seguin-Orlando, Andaine
Ullah, Inam
Sjogren, Karl-Goran
Iversen, Katrine Hojholt
Choin, Jeremy
de la Fuente, Constanza
Ilardo, Melissa
Schroeder, Hannes
Moiseyev, Vyacheslav
Gromov, Andrey
Polyakov, Andrei
ŞENYURT, SÜLEYMAN YÜCEL
Ahmad, Habib
McKenzie, Catriona
Margaryan, Ashot
Hameed, Abdul
Samad, Abdul
Gul, Nazish
Khokhar, Muhammad Hassan
Goriunova, O. I.
Bazaliiskii, Vladimir I.
Novembre, John
Weber, Andrzej W.
Orlando, Ludovic
Yediay, Fulya Eylem
Damgaard, Peter de Barros
Martiniano, Rui
Kamm, Jack
Moreno-Mayar, J. Victor
Kroonen, Guus
Allentoft, Morten E.
Nielsen, Rasmus
Kristiansen, Kristian
Sikora, Martin
Outram, Alan K.
Durbin, Richard
Willerslev, Eske
Peyrot, Michael
Barjamovic, Gojko
Rasmussen, Simon
Zacho, Claus
Baimukhanov, Nurbol
Zaibert, Victor
Merz, Victor
Biddanda, Arjun
Merz, Ilja
Loman, Valeriy
Evdokimov, Valeriy
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The Yamnaya expansions from the western steppe into Europe and Asia during the Early Bronze Age (similar to 3000 BCE) are believed to have brought with them Indo-European languages and possibly horse husbandry. We analyzed 74 ancient whole-genome sequences from across Inner Asia and Anatolia and show that the Botai people associated with the earliest horse husbandry derived from a hunter-gatherer population deeply diverged from the Yamnaya. Our results also suggest distinct migrations bringing West Eurasian ancestry into South Asia before and after, but not at the time of, Yamnaya culture. We find no evidence of steppe ancestry in Bronze Age Anatolia from when Indo-European languages are attested there. Thus, in contrast to Europe, Early Bronze Age Yamnaya-related migrations had limited direct genetic impact in Asia.
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