Nature Communications (Feb 2019)
Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions
- Chuan-Chao Wang,
- Sabine Reinhold,
- Alexey Kalmykov,
- Antje Wissgott,
- Guido Brandt,
- Choongwon Jeong,
- Olivia Cheronet,
- Matthew Ferry,
- Eadaoin Harney,
- Denise Keating,
- Swapan Mallick,
- Nadin Rohland,
- Kristin Stewardson,
- Anatoly R. Kantorovich,
- Vladimir E. Maslov,
- Vladimira G. Petrenko,
- Vladimir R. Erlikh,
- Biaslan Ch. Atabiev,
- Rabadan G. Magomedov,
- Philipp L. Kohl,
- Kurt W. Alt,
- Sandra L. Pichler,
- Claudia Gerling,
- Harald Meller,
- Benik Vardanyan,
- Larisa Yeganyan,
- Alexey D. Rezepkin,
- Dirk Mariaschk,
- Natalia Berezina,
- Julia Gresky,
- Katharina Fuchs,
- Corina Knipper,
- Stephan Schiffels,
- Elena Balanovska,
- Oleg Balanovsky,
- Iain Mathieson,
- Thomas Higham,
- Yakov B. Berezin,
- Alexandra Buzhilova,
- Viktor Trifonov,
- Ron Pinhasi,
- Andrej B. Belinskij,
- David Reich,
- Svend Hansen,
- Johannes Krause,
- Wolfgang Haak
Affiliations
- Chuan-Chao Wang
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Sabine Reinhold
- German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department
- Alexey Kalmykov
- ’Nasledie’ Cultural Heritage Unit
- Antje Wissgott
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Guido Brandt
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Choongwon Jeong
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Olivia Cheronet
- Earth Institute, University College Dublin
- Matthew Ferry
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Eadaoin Harney
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Denise Keating
- Earth Institute, University College Dublin
- Swapan Mallick
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Nadin Rohland
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Kristin Stewardson
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Anatoly R. Kantorovich
- Department of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Vladimir E. Maslov
- Institute of Archaeology RAS
- Vladimira G. Petrenko
- Institute of Archaeology RAS
- Vladimir R. Erlikh
- State Museum of Oriental Art
- Biaslan Ch. Atabiev
- Ltd. Institute for Caucasus Archaeology
- Rabadan G. Magomedov
- Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography DNC RAS
- Philipp L. Kohl
- Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College
- Kurt W. Alt
- Danube Private University
- Sandra L. Pichler
- IPAS—Institute of Prehistory and Archaeological Science, University of Basel
- Claudia Gerling
- IPAS—Institute of Prehistory and Archaeological Science, University of Basel
- Harald Meller
- State Heritage Museum, Saxony-Anhalt
- Benik Vardanyan
- Martin-Luther-Universität
- Larisa Yeganyan
- Shirak Center for Armenological Studies of National Academy of Science RA
- Alexey D. Rezepkin
- Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Dirk Mariaschk
- German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department
- Natalia Berezina
- Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Julia Gresky
- German Archaeological Institute, Department of Natural Sciences
- Katharina Fuchs
- CRC 1266 “Scales of Transformation”, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität
- Corina Knipper
- Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry gGmbH
- Stephan Schiffels
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Elena Balanovska
- Research Centre for Medical Genetics
- Oleg Balanovsky
- Research Centre for Medical Genetics
- Iain Mathieson
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Thomas Higham
- Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, RLAHA, University of Oxford
- Yakov B. Berezin
- Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Alexandra Buzhilova
- Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Viktor Trifonov
- Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Ron Pinhasi
- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna
- Andrej B. Belinskij
- ’Nasledie’ Cultural Heritage Unit
- David Reich
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Svend Hansen
- German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department
- Johannes Krause
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Wolfgang Haak
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08220-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
The Caucasus mountain range has impacted on the culture and genetics of the wider region. Here, the authors generate genome-wide SNP data for 45 Eneolithic and Bronze Age individuals across the Caucasus, and find distinct genetic clusters between mountain and steppe zones as well as occasional gene-flow.
