Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominance.
Chernyakhiv culture
Eurasian Steppe
Iron Age
Sarmatians
Scythians
aDNA
Journal
Current biology : CB
ISSN: 1879-0445
Titre abrégé: Curr Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9107782
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 07 2019
22 07 2019
Historique:
received:
23
02
2019
revised:
03
05
2019
accepted:
07
06
2019
pubmed:
16
7
2019
medline:
11
7
2020
entrez:
16
7
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The Early Iron Age nomadic Scythians have been described as a confederation of tribes of different origins, based on ancient DNA evidence [1-3]. It is still unclear how much of the Scythian dominance in the Eurasian Steppe was due to movements of people and how much reflected cultural diffusion and elite dominance. We present new whole-genome sequences of 31 ancient Western and Eastern Steppe individuals, including Scythians as well as samples pre- and postdating them, allowing us to set the Scythians in a temporal context (in the Western, i.e., Ponto-Caspian Steppe). We detect an increase of eastern (Altaian) affinity along with a decrease in eastern hunter-gatherer (EHG) ancestry in the Early Iron Age Ponto-Caspian gene pool at the start of the Scythian dominance. On the other hand, samples of the Chernyakhiv culture postdating the Scythians in Ukraine have a significantly higher proportion of Near Eastern ancestry than other samples of this study. Our results agree with the Gothic source of the Chernyakhiv culture and support the hypothesis that the Scythian dominance did involve a demic component.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31303491
pii: S0960-9822(19)30712-2
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.019
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
DNA, Ancient
0
DNA, Mitochondrial
0
Types de publication
Historical Article
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2430-2441.e10Informations de copyright
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