Population-genetic history of the Karasuk culture origin
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2023-5-129-138
Abstract
Aim. To determine the place of origin of the Karasuk culture population, considering the population history context of the Great Steppe in the Bronze Age.
Methodology. The analysis of the data published in specialized literature sources and obtained by different bioinformatics methods was carried out.
Results. The spreading of the Karasuk culture was accompanied by the distribution of the Mongoloid component carriers, who were the first in the population history of the Eurasian steppe belt to penetrate the territory west of the Altai. The ancestors of the Cimmerians were the westernmost group of the Karasuk population. The migration of the Karasuk people was the first large-scale migration wave in the whole region which occurred from the east, not from the west, as in the case of the migration of the Afanasievо and Andronovo populations.
Research implications. A hypothesis of migration of the Karasuk population from the territory of western Mongolia is proposed.
About the Author
A. S. Konkov
Paleoethnology Research Center
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Andrey S. Konkov – Cand. Sci. (Biology), Senior Researcher
Novaya plochad 12/5, Moscow 109012
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