Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe

Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe

The Scythian culture was widespread throughout the Eurasian Steppe during the 1stmillennium BCE. This study provides genetic evidence for two independent origins for the Scythians in the eastern and western steppe with varying proportions of Yamnaya and East Asian ancestry, and gene flow among them.

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Main Authors: Martina Unterländer, Friso Palstra, Iosif Lazaridis, Aleksandr Pilipenko, Zuzana Hofmanová, Melanie Groß, Christian Sell, Jens Blöcher, Karola Kirsanow, Nadin Rohland, Benjamin Rieger, Elke Kaiser, Wolfram Schier, Dimitri Pozdniakov, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Myriam Georges, Sandra Wilde, Adam Powell, Evelyne Heyer, Mathias Currat, David Reich, Zainolla Samashev, Hermann Parzinger, Vyacheslav I. Molodin, Joachim Burger
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/94fc29ade0014d1880781a3baf7f5583
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