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Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain

View ORCID ProfileLehti Saag, Sergey V. Vasilyev, Liivi Varul, Natalia V. Kosorukova, Dmitri V. Gerasimov, Svetlana V. Oshibkina, Samuel J. Griffith, Anu Solnik, Lauri Saag, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Ene Metspalu, Maere Reidla, Siiri Rootsi, Toomas Kivisild, Christiana Lyn Scheib, Kristiina Tambets, View ORCID ProfileAivar Kriiska, View ORCID ProfileMait Metspalu
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.02.184507
Lehti Saag
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Sergey V. Vasilyev
2Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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Liivi Varul
3Archaeological Research Collection, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn, 10130, Estonia
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Natalia V. Kosorukova
4Cherepovets State University and Cherepovets Museum Association, Cherepovets, 162600, Russia
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Dmitri V. Gerasimov
5Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
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Svetlana V. Oshibkina
6Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117292, Russia
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Samuel J. Griffith
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Anu Solnik
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Lauri Saag
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Eugenia D’Atanasio
7Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council, Rome, 00185, Italy
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Ene Metspalu
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Maere Reidla
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Siiri Rootsi
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Toomas Kivisild
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
8Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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Christiana Lyn Scheib
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Kristiina Tambets
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Aivar Kriiska
9Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
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Mait Metspalu
1Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Abstract

Transition from the Stone to the Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of major population movements originating from the Ponto-Caspian Steppe. Here, we report new genome-wide sequence data from 28 individuals from the territory north of this source area – from the under-studied Western part of present-day Russia, including Stone Age hunter-gatherers (10,800–4,250 cal BC) and Bronze Age farmers from the Corded Ware complex called Fatyanovo Culture (2,900–2,050 cal BC). We show that Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry was present in Northwestern Russia already from around 10,000 BC. Furthermore, we see a clear change in ancestry with the arrival of farming – the Fatyanovo Culture individuals were genetically similar to other Corded Ware cultures, carrying a mixture of Steppe and European early farmer ancestry and thus likely originating from a fast migration towards the northeast from somewhere in the vicinity of modern-day Ukraine, which is the closest area where these ancestries coexisted from around 3,000 BC.

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Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain
Lehti Saag, Sergey V. Vasilyev, Liivi Varul, Natalia V. Kosorukova, Dmitri V. Gerasimov, Svetlana V. Oshibkina, Samuel J. Griffith, Anu Solnik, Lauri Saag, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Ene Metspalu, Maere Reidla, Siiri Rootsi, Toomas Kivisild, Christiana Lyn Scheib, Kristiina Tambets, Aivar Kriiska, Mait Metspalu
bioRxiv 2020.07.02.184507; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.02.184507
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Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain
Lehti Saag, Sergey V. Vasilyev, Liivi Varul, Natalia V. Kosorukova, Dmitri V. Gerasimov, Svetlana V. Oshibkina, Samuel J. Griffith, Anu Solnik, Lauri Saag, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Ene Metspalu, Maere Reidla, Siiri Rootsi, Toomas Kivisild, Christiana Lyn Scheib, Kristiina Tambets, Aivar Kriiska, Mait Metspalu
bioRxiv 2020.07.02.184507; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.02.184507

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