Bronze age Northern Eurasian genetics in the context of development of metallurgy and Siberian ancestry

Ainash Childebayeva; Fabian Fricke; Adam Benjamin Rohrlach; Lei Huang; Stephan Schiffels; Outi Vesakoski; Kristiina Mannermaa; Lena Semerau; Franziska Aron; Konstantin Solodovnikov; Marina Rykun; Vyacheslav Moiseyev; Valery Khartanovich; Igor Kovtun; Johannes Krause; Sergey Kuzminykh; Wolfgang Haak

doi:10.1038/s42003-024-06343-x

Communications Biology (Jun 2024)

Bronze age Northern Eurasian genetics in the context of development of metallurgy and Siberian ancestry

Ainash Childebayeva,
Fabian Fricke,
Adam Benjamin Rohrlach,
Lei Huang,
Stephan Schiffels,
Outi Vesakoski,
Kristiina Mannermaa,
Lena Semerau,
Franziska Aron,
Konstantin Solodovnikov,
Marina Rykun,
Vyacheslav Moiseyev,
Valery Khartanovich,
Igor Kovtun,
Johannes Krause,
Sergey Kuzminykh,
Wolfgang Haak

Affiliations

Ainash Childebayeva: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Fabian Fricke: German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department
Adam Benjamin Rohrlach: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Lei Huang: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Stephan Schiffels: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Outi Vesakoski: Department of Finnish and Finno-Ugric Languages, University of Turku
Kristiina Mannermaa: Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4
Lena Semerau: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Franziska Aron: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Konstantin Solodovnikov: Institute of Problems of Northern Development, Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Marina Rykun: Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, National Research Tomsk State University
Vyacheslav Moiseyev: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, University Embankment, 3
Valery Khartanovich: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, University Embankment, 3
Igor Kovtun: Igor V. Kovtun, Independent Researcher
Johannes Krause: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Sergey Kuzminykh: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Laboratory of Natural Scientific Methods
Wolfgang Haak: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06343-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

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Abstract The Eurasian Bronze Age (BA) has been described as a period of substantial human migrations, the emergence of pastoralism, horse domestication, and development of metallurgy. This study focuses on two north Eurasian sites sharing Siberian genetic ancestry. One of the sites, Rostovka, is associated with the Seima-Turbino (ST) phenomenon (~2200-1900 BCE) that is characterized by elaborate metallurgical objects found throughout Northern Eurasia. The genetic profiles of Rostovka individuals vary widely along the forest-tundra Siberian genetic cline represented by many modern Uralic-speaking populations, and the genetic heterogeneity observed is consistent with the current understanding of the ST being a transcultural phenomenon. Individuals from the second site, Bolshoy Oleni Ostrov in Kola, in comparison form a tighter cluster on the Siberian ancestry cline. We further explore this Siberian ancestry profile and assess the role of the ST phenomenon and other contemporaneous BA cultures in the spread of Uralic languages and Siberian ancestry.

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
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