ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2018
The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia.
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Peter de Barros Damgaard *Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Rui Martiniano *Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0216-778X
Jack Kamm *Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2412-756X
J Víctor Moreno-Mayar *Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Guus KroonenDepartment of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-3708-0476
Michaël PeyrotLeiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5983-9690
Gojko BarjamovicDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7455-946X
Simon RasmussenDepartment of Bio and Health Informatics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Claus ZachoCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-6217-4220
Nurbol BaimukhanovShejire DNA project, Abai ave. 150/230, 050046 Almaty, Kazakhstan.ORCID 0000-0003-3617-1007
Victor ZaibertInstitute of Archaeology and Steppe Civilization, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan.
Victor MerzS. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies named after A.Kh. Margulan, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
Arjun BiddandaDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1861-1523
Ilja MerzS. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies named after A.Kh. Margulan, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.ORCID 0000-0001-9066-9629
Valeriy LomanSaryarkinsky Institute of Archaeology, Buketov Karaganda State University, Karaganda. 100074, Kazakhstan.ORCID 0000-0001-6951-0509
Valeriy EvdokimovSaryarkinsky Institute of Archaeology, Buketov Karaganda State University, Karaganda. 100074, Kazakhstan.
Emma UsmanovaSaryarkinsky Institute of Archaeology, Buketov Karaganda State University, Karaganda. 100074, Kazakhstan.
Brian HemphillDepartment of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
Andaine Seguin-OrlandoCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-8265-3229
Fulya Eylem YediayThe Institute of Forensic Sciences, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0003-3722-3091
Inam UllahCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Karl-Göran SjögrenDepartment of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1791-3175
Katrine Højholt IversenDepartment of Bio and Health Informatics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Jeremy ChoinCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Constanza de la FuenteCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-2857-3615
Melissa IlardoCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hannes SchroederCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Vyacheslav MoiseyevPeter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Andrey GromovPeter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Andrei PolyakovInstitute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-3418-2469
Sachihiro OmuraJapanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology, Kaman, Kırşehir, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-2600-9703
Süleyman Yücel SenyurtDepartment of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
Habib AhmadDepartment of Genetics, Hazara University, Garden Campus, Mansehra, Pakistan.
Catriona McKenzieDepartment of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7288-1319
Ashot MargaryanCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-2576-2429
Abdul HameedDepartment of Archeology, Hazara University, Garden Campus, Mansehra, Pakistan.
Abdul SamadDirectorate of Archaeology and Museums Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Nazish GulDepartment of Genetics, Hazara University, Garden Campus, Mansehra, Pakistan.
Muhammad Hassan KhokharArchaeological Museum Harappa at Archaeology Department Govt. of Punjab, Pakistan.
O I GoriunovaInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Lavrent'iev Ave. 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
Vladimir I BazaliiskiiDepartment of History, Irkutsk State University, Karl Marx Street 1, Irkutsk 664003, Russia.
John NovembreDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5345-0214
Andrzej W WeberDepartment of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H4, Canada.
Ludovic OrlandoCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-3936-1850
Morten E AllentoftCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Rasmus NielsenDepartments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0513-6591
Kristian KristiansenDepartment of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden.
Martin SikoraCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-2818-8319
Alan K OutramDepartment of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3360-089X
Richard DurbinWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. rd109@cam.ac.uk ewillerslev@snm.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-9130-1006
Eske WillerslevCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. rd109@cam.ac.uk ewillerslev@snm.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-7081-6748
Funding
PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENETICS AND REGULATIONT32GM007197 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ROTHMAN-DENES, LUCIA B. B · 1985 to 2020
$17.0MNIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007197Wellcome Trust 206194Wellcome Trust 207492/Z/17/Z
Abstract
The Yamnaya expansions from the western steppe into Europe and Asia during the Early Bronze Age (~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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DomesticationGenetic DriftGenome, HumanHorsesAnimalsAsiaAsian PeopleChromosomes, Human, YDNA, AncientDNA, MitochondrialEuropeGrasslandHistory, AncientHuman MigrationHumansLanguageDNA, AncientDNA, Mitochondrial
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