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Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe.
Nature communications - 3 Mar 2017
Unterländer Martina, Palstra Friso, Lazaridis Iosif, Pilipenko Aleksandr, Hofmanová Zuzana, Groß Melanie, Sell Christian, Blöcher Jens, Kirsanow Karola, Rohland Nadin, Rieger Benjamin, Kaiser Elke, Schier Wolfram, Pozdniakov Dimitri, Khokhlov Aleksandr, Georges Myriam, Wilde Sandra, Powell Adam, Heyer Evelyne, Currat Mathias, Reich David, Samashev Zainolla, Parzinger Hermann, Molodin Vyacheslav I, Burger Joachim
Abstract excerpt
During the 1st millennium before the Common Era (BCE), nomadic tribes associated with the Iron Age Scythian culture spread over the Eurasian Steppe, covering a territory of more than 3,500 km in breadth. To understand the demographic processes behind the spread of the Scythian culture, we analysed genomic data from eight individuals and a mitochondrial dataset of 96 individuals originating in eastern and western...
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