@article{88fdb12b934e45989278416a90db5423,
title = "Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe",
abstract = "During the 1 st 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 parts of the Eurasian Steppe. Genomic inference reveals that Scythians in the east and the west of the steppe zone can best be described as a mixture of Yamnaya-related ancestry and an East Asian component. Demographic modelling suggests independent origins for eastern and western groups with ongoing gene-flow between them, plausibly explaining the striking uniformity of their material culture. We also find evidence that significant gene-flow from east to west Eurasia must have occurred early during the Iron Age.",
keywords = "Asian Continental Ancestry Group/genetics, DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics, Datasets as Topic, European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics, Gene Flow, Genetic Variation/genetics, Grassland, History, Ancient, Human Migration/history, Humans, Kazakhstan, Male, Models, Statistical, Russia, Transients and Migrants/history, CENTRAL-ASIAN POPULATIONS, MTDNA, POSITIVE SELECTION, EAST, BRONZE-AGE, MIGRATIONS, GENETIC-ANALYSIS, ADMIXTURE, MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA, HISTORY",
author = "Martina Unterl{\"a}nder and Friso Palstra and Iosif Lazaridis and Aleksandr Pilipenko and Zuzana Hofmanov{\'a} and Melanie Gro{\ss} and Christian Sell and Jens Bl{\"o}cher and Karola Kirsanow and Nadin Rohland and Benjamin Rieger and Elke Kaiser and Wolfram Schier and Dimitri Pozdniakov and Aleksandr Khokhlov and Myriam Georges and Sandra Wilde and Adam Powell and Evelyne Heyer and Mathias Currat and David Reich and Zainolla Samashev and Hermann Parzinger and Molodin, {Vyacheslav I.} and Joachim Burger",
year = "2017",
month = mar,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1038/ncomms14615",
language = "English",
volume = "8",
pages = "14615",
journal = "Nature Communications",
issn = "2041-1723",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}