The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

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Volumn 360, Issue 6396, 2018, Pages

  de Barros Damgaard, Peter ^a   Martiniano, Rui ^b,c   Kamm, Jack ^b   Victor Moreno Mayar J ^a   Kroonen, Guus ^d,e   Peyrot, Michaël ^e   Barjamovic, Gojko ^f   Rasmussen, Simon ^g   Zacho, Claus ^a   Baimukhanov, Nurbol ^h   Zaibert, Victor ⁱ   Merz, Victor ^j   Biddanda, Arjun ^k   Merz, Ilja ^j   Loman, Valeriy ^l   Evdokimov, Valeriy ^l   Usmanova, Emma ^l   Hemphill, Brian ^m   Seguin Orlando, Andaine ^a   Yediay, Fulya Eylem ⁿ   Ullah, Inam ^a,o   Sjögren, Karl Göran ^p   Iversen, Katrine Højholt ^g   Choin, Jeremy ^a   de la Fuente, Constanza ^a   Ilardo, Melissa ^a   Schroeder, Hannes ^a   Moiseyev, Vyacheslav ^q   Gromov, Andrey ^q   Polyakov, Andrei ^r   Omura, Sachihiro ^s   Senyurt, Süleyman Yücel ^t   Ahmad, Habib ^o,u   McKenzie, Catriona ^v   Margaryan, Ashot ^a   Hameed, Abdul ^o   Samad, Abdul ^w   Gul, Nazish ^o   Khokhar, Muhammad Hassan ^x   Goriunova, O I ^y,z   Bazaliiskii, Vladimir I ^z   Novembre, John ^k   Weber, Andrzej W ^aa   Orlando, Ludovic ^a,ab   Allentoft, Morten E ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^ac   Kristiansen, Kristian ^p   Sikora, Martin ^a   Outram, Alan K ^v   Durbin, Richard ^b,c   Willerslev, Eske ^a,b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^h Shejire DNA Project   (Kazakhstan)

ⁱ AL FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^j S TORAIGHYROV PAVLODAR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^l BUKETOV KARAGANDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

ⁿ ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^o HAZARA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^q RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^r INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^s Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology   (Turkey)

^t GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^u ISLAMIA COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^v UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^w Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa   (Pakistan)

^x Archaeological Museum Harappa at Archaeology Department Govt of Punjab   (Pakistan)

^y INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^z IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^ab UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BRONZE AGE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUNTER-GATHERER; LANGUAGE; POPULATION MIGRATION; STEPPE;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BRONZE AGE; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL ASIAN; CHALCOLITHIC; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INDIAN; INDO EUROPEAN LANGUAGE; IRANIAN PEOPLE; LANGUAGE; PAKISTANI; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH ASIA; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; GRASSLAND; HISTORY; HORSE; MIGRATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANATOLIA; EUROPE; SOUTH ASIA; TURKEY;

EQUIDAE;

ANCIENT DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, ANCIENT; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOMESTICATION; EUROPE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME, HUMAN; GRASSLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORSES; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85047018554     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aar7711     Document Type: Article

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