The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia
Peter de Barros Damgaard; Rui Martiniano; Jack Kamm; J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar; Guus Kroonen; Michaël Peyrot; Gojko Barjamovic; Simon Rasmussen · 2018 · Science
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Abstract (excerpt)
The Yamnaya expansions from the western steppe into Europe and Asia during the Early Bronze Age (~3000 BCE) are believed to have brought with them Indo-European languages and possibly horse husbandry. We analyzed 74 ancient whole-genome…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1126/science.aar7711