The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia.

Barros Damgaard P, de; R, Martiniano; J, Kamm; JV, Moreno-Mayar; G, Kroonen; M, Peyrot; G, Barjamovic; S, Rasmussen; C, Zacho; N, Baimukhanov; V, Zaibert; V, Merz; A, Biddanda; I, Merz; V, Loman; V, Evdokimov; E, Usmanova; B, Hemphill; A, Seguin-Orlando; FE, Yediay; I, Ullah; KG, Sjögren; KH, Iversen; J, Choin; la Fuente C, de; M, Ilardo; H, Schroeder; V, Moiseyev; A, Gromov; A, Polyakov; S, Omura; SY, Senyurt; H, Ahmad; C, McKenzie; A, Margaryan; A, Hameed; A, Samad; N, Gul; MH, Khokhar; OI, Goriunova; VI, Bazaliiskii; J, Novembre; AW, Weber; L, Orlando; ME, Allentoft; R, Nielsen; K, Kristiansen; M, Sikora; AK, Outram; R, Durbin; E, Willerslev

doi:10.1126/science.aar7711

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The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia.

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de Barros Damgaard P

Martiniano R

Kamm J

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...

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