Transitions in Palaeoecology and Technology: Hunter-Gatherers and Early Herders in the Gobi Desert

Janz, Lisa; Odsuren, Davaakhuu; Bukhchuluun, Dashzeveg

doi:10.1007/s10963-016-9100-5

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“…Pastoralism in Mongolia is often assumed to have been introduced by the eastward expansion of Western Steppe cultures (e.g., Afanasievo) via either the Upper Yenisei and Sayan mountain region to the northwest of Mongolia or through the Altai mountains in the west (Janz et al, 2017). Although the vast majority of Afanasievo burials found to date are located in the Altai mountains and Upper Yenisei regions outside of Mongolia (Honeychurch, 2017), an Early Bronze Age (EBA) site in the southern Khangai Mountains of central Mongolia has yielded Afanasievo-style graves with proteomic evidence of ruminant milk consumption (Wilkin et al, 2019).…”

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A dynamic 6,000-year genetic history of Eurasia’s Eastern Steppe

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Wang

Wilkin

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SummaryThe Eastern Eurasian Steppe was home to historic empires of nomadic pastoralists, including the Xiongnu and the Mongols. However, little is known about the region’s population history. Here we reveal its dynamic genetic history by analyzing new genome-wide data for 214 ancient individuals spanning 6,000 years. We identify a pastoralist expansion into Mongolia ca. 3000 BCE, and by the Late Bronze Age, Mongolian populations were biogeographically structured into three distinct groups, all practicing dairy pastoralism regardless of ancestry. The Xiongnu emerged from the mixing of these populations and those from surrounding regions. By comparison, the Mongols exhibit much higher Eastern Eurasian ancestry, resembling present-day Mongolic-speaking populations. Our results illuminate the complex interplay between genetic, sociopolitical, and cultural changes on the Eastern Steppe.

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“…Although the Afanasievo-related expansion may have introduced dairy pastoralism into Mongolia (Janz et al, 2017), the people themselves do not seem to have left a long-lasting genetic footprint. An Afanasievo-style burial (Afanasievo_KUR001) excavated in the Mongolian Altai and dating to approximately 500 years later (2618-2487 cal.…”

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A dynamic 6,000-year genetic history of Eurasia’s Eastern Steppe

Jeong

Wang

Wilkin

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“…Flint artefacts, including tools, flakes and cores, were also commonly encountered. The concentration of stone artefacts was especially dense at some collections near cluster 27, perhaps suggesting the location of Early to Middle Holocene sites (Janz et al 2017).…”

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Medieval long-wall construction on the Mongolian Steppe during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries AD

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“…There is archaeological evidence for habitation both throughout this time span (Janz et al . 2017) and during the centuries of rapid landscape change after c . 4000 BP.…”

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“…Tumen et al . 2013; Amartuvshin et al 2015; Janz et al 2017) makes it possible to define the probable earliest Bronze Age cultures of the Gobi region as both practitioners of familiar Middle Holocene adaptive strategies used by communities in response to local needs, but also as communities whose choices resonated with macro-regional trends. This article contributes to the discussion of the extent to which the Eurasian Bronze Age is defined by social and political conditions, technological manifestations or typological patterns (Chernykh 1992; Kristiansen & Larsson 2005; Kohl 2007; Shelach 2009).…”

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