Abstract
The Oxus Civilisation (or Bactrio-Margian Archaeological Complex, BMAC) was the main archaeological culture of the Bronze Age in southern Central Asia. Paleogenetic analyses were previously conducted mainly on samples from the eastern part of BMAC. The population associated with BMAC descends from local Chalcolithic populations, with some outliers of steppe or South-Asian descent. Here, we present new genome-wide data for one individual from Ulug-depe (Turkmenistan), one of the main BMAC sites, located at the southwestern edge of the BMAC. We demonstrate that this individual genetically belongs to the BMAC cluster. Using this genome, we confirm that modern Indo-Iranian–speaking populations from Central Asia derive their ancestry from BMAC populations, with additional gene flow from the western and the Altai steppes in higher proportions among the Tajiks than the Yagnobi ethnic group.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 884612 |
| Tidsskrift | Frontiers in Genetics |
| Vol/bind | 13 |
| Antal sider | 11 |
| ISSN | 1664-8021 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
| Udgivet eksternt | Ja |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:This project has been funded by Sorbonne Université (PaleOxus project SU-16-R-EMR-06). Archaeological excavations were permitted thanks to the work of the French Archaeological Mission in Turkmenistan (MAFTUR) under the direction until 2013 of Olivier Lecomte (†) and the funding of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the Leon-Levy Foundation. PG-V is supported by a PhD grant provided by Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
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