To the question of migration of early bronze age Yamnaya culture tribes on the territory of Central and South-Western Europe
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2023-5-44-53
Abstract
Aim. To consider and analyse the problem of the influence of steppe cattle-breeding tribes of the beginning of the Paleometallic era on the sedentary population of Central and South-Western Europe. To highlight the main scientific views on the migration of Early Bronze Age Yamnaya tribes and their influence on the local population.
Methodology. The scientific analysis based on an integrated approach, was conducted with the input of palaeoanthropological and genetic data.
Results. The western territories were penetrated by pastoralist tribes from the frontier regions in the context of traditional economic development of new spaces. Under their influence, some cultural innovations took place in the environment of the aboriginal population, and to a certain extent, the gene pool changed, but without noticeable phenotypic transformation.
Research implications. The research results allow us to outline the territories from which the pastoral groups spread westwards, to emphasise the mutual diffusion of genotypes in contact areas within Indo-European society at one of the early stages of their development.
Supporting agencies: The article was written with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation grant 22-18-00194 “Epochal transformation of cultural and physical appearance of the population of the south of the Middle Volga region and the Urals during the Neolithic – Early Iron Age according to the sources of archaeology, anthropology, and genetics”.
About the Authors
P. F. Kuznetsov
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pavel F. Kuznetsov – Cand. Sci. (History), Assoc. Prof., Director of the Museum of Archeology of the Volga Region
ul. M. Gorkogo 65/67, Samara 443099
O. D. Mochalov
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Oleg D. Mochalov – Dr. Sci. (History), Prof., Department Head, Department of Russian History and Archeology
ul. M. Gorkogo 65/67, Samara 443099
A. A. Khokhlov
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexandr A. Khokhlov – Dr. Sci. (History), Assoc. Prof., Head of the Volga-Ural Center for Paleoanthropological Research, Prof., Department of Biology, Ecology and Teaching Methods
ul. M. Gorkogo 65/67, Samara 443099
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