A new hypothesis for early Bronze Age cultural diversity in Xinjiang, China

Betts, Alison; Jia, Peter Weiming; Abuduresule, Idilisi

doi:10.1016/j.ara.2018.04.001

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“…This pattern contrasts with the other multiple patterns of exchange and mobility shown for Bronze Age metals, subsistence technologies and people (Betts et al . 2019).…”

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Pots and potters of the Bronze Age of north-west Xinjiang

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“…This pattern contrasts with the other multiple patterns of exchange and mobility shown for Bronze Age metals, subsistence technologies and people (Betts et al . 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Desiccated wheat seeds were excavated from Xiaohe and Gumugou cemeteries, which are located in the Taklimakan Desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwestern China (Figure ). Previous archaeological researches have shown that wheat and barley were cultivated in Xiaohe and Gumugou regions (Yang et al ., , Betts et al ., ). The wheat seeds used in this study were obtained from three tombs in Xiaohe cemetery (designated as M13, M17, and M29) and two tombs in Gumugou cemetery (designated as M1 and M3).…”

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Phylogenetic and population structural inference from genomic ancestry maintained in present‐day common wheat Chinese landraces

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Zhang

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Summary Hexaploid common wheat is one of the most important food crops worldwide. Common wheat domestication began in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East approximately 10 000 years ago and then spread west into Europe and eastward into East Asia and China. However, the possible spreading route into and within China is still unclear. In this study, we successfully extracted DNA from single ancient wheat seeds and sequenced the whole genome of seven ancient samples from Xiaohe and Gumugou cemeteries in Xinjiang, China. Genomic inference and morphological observation confirmed their identity as hexaploid common wheat grown in prehistoric China at least 3200 years before present (BP). Phylogenetic and admixture analyses with RNA‐seq data of modern hexaploid wheat cultivars from both China and Western countries demonstrated a close kinship of the ancient wheat to extant common wheat landraces in southwestern China. The highly similar allelic frequencies in modern landraces of the Qinghai‐Tibetan plateau with the ancient wheat support the previously suggested southwestern spreading route into highland China. A subsequent dispersal route from the Qinghai‐Tibetan plateau margins to the Yangtze valley was proposed in this study. Furthermore, the common wheat populations grown in the Middle and Lower Yangtze valley wheat zones were also proposed to be established by population admixture with the wheat grown in the Upper Yangtze valley. Our study reports ancient common wheat sequences at a genome‐wide scale, providing important information on the origin, dispersal, and genetic improvement under cultivation of present‐day wheat landraces grown in China.

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“…It is doubtful whether the Qièmùěrqièkè Culture of northern Xīnjiāng represents this passage through the Dzungar Basin. Mallory sees no good connection to either the Afanas'evo Culture or the Xiǎohé Horizon (2015: 45 and passim; see most recently Betts et al 2019). 41 Sokolova derives the Okunevo from the Neolithic Ust'-Belaya Culture, located between the Middle Yenisei and the Baikal region, dating to ca.…”

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The deviant typological profile of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European may be due to Uralic substrate influence

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2019

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Tocharian agglutinative case inflexion as well as its single series of voiceless stops, the two most striking typological deviations from Proto-Indo-European, can be explained through influence from Uralic. A number of other typological features of Tocharian may likewise be interpreted as due to contact with a Uralic language. The supposed contacts are likely to be associated with the Afanas’evo Culture of South Siberia. This Indo-European culture probably represents an intermediate phase in the movement of speakers of early Tocharian from the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Eastern European steppe to the Tarim Basin in Northwest China. At the same time, the Proto-Samoyedic homeland must have been in or close to the Afanas’evo area. A close match between the Pre-Proto-Tocharian and Pre-Proto-Samoyedic vowel systems is a strong indication that the Uralic contact language was an early form of Samoyedic.

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A new hypothesis for early Bronze Age cultural diversity in Xinjiang, China

Cited by 29 publications

References 23 publications

Pots and potters of the Bronze Age of north-west Xinjiang

Pots and potters of the Bronze Age of north-west Xinjiang

Phylogenetic and population structural inference from genomic ancestry maintained in present‐day common wheat Chinese landraces

The deviant typological profile of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European may be due to Uralic substrate influence

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