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Ancient DNA from a 2,700-year-old goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) confirms gazelle hunting in Iron Age Central Asia

View ORCID ProfileAndré Elias Rodrigues Soares, View ORCID ProfileNikolaus Boroffka, Oskar Schröder, Leonid Sverchkov, View ORCID ProfileNorbert Benecke, View ORCID ProfileTorsten Günther
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.08.471591
André Elias Rodrigues Soares
1Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
6Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Nikolaus Boroffka
2Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Oskar Schröder
3Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Leonid Sverchkov
4Institute of Fine Arts, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Norbert Benecke
5Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Torsten Günther
1Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract

Central Asia has been an important region connecting the different parts of Eurasia throughout history and prehistory, with large states developing in this region during the Iron Age. Archaeogenomics is a powerful addition to the zooarchaeological toolkit for understanding the relation of these societies to animals. Here, we present the genetic identification of a goitered gazelle specimen (Gazella subgutturosa) at the site Gazimulla-Tepa, in modern-day Uzbekistan, confirming hunting of the species in the region during the Iron Age. The sample was directly radiocarbon dated to 2724-2439 calBP. A phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genome places the individual into the modern variation of G. subgutturosa. Our data does represent both the first ancient DNA and the first nuclear DNA sequences of this species. The lack of genomic resources available for this gazelle and related species prevented us from performing a more in-depth analysis of the nuclear sequences generated. Therefore, we are making our sequence data available to the research community to facilitate other research of this nowadays threatened species which has been subject to human hunting for several millennia across its entire range on the Asian continent.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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Ancient DNA from a 2,700-year-old goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) confirms gazelle hunting in Iron Age Central Asia
André Elias Rodrigues Soares, Nikolaus Boroffka, Oskar Schröder, Leonid Sverchkov, Norbert Benecke, Torsten Günther
bioRxiv 2021.12.08.471591; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.08.471591
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Ancient DNA from a 2,700-year-old goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) confirms gazelle hunting in Iron Age Central Asia
André Elias Rodrigues Soares, Nikolaus Boroffka, Oskar Schröder, Leonid Sverchkov, Norbert Benecke, Torsten Günther
bioRxiv 2021.12.08.471591; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.08.471591

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