Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00123715" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123715 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03798-4" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03798-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03798-4" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-021-03798-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions
Original language description
During the Early Bronze Age, populations of the western Eurasian steppe expanded across an immense area of northern Eurasia. Combined archaeological and genetic evidence supports widespread Early Bronze Age population movements out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe that resulted in gene flow across vast distances, linking populations of Yamnaya pastoralists in Scandinavia with pastoral populations (known as the Afanasievo) far to the east in the Altai Mountains(1,2) and Mongolia(3). Although some models hold that this expansion was the outcome of a newly mobile pastoral economy characterized by horse traction, bulk wagon transport(4-6) and regular dietary dependence on meat and milk(5), hard evidence for these economic features has not been found. Here we draw on proteomic analysis of dental calculus from individuals from the western Eurasian steppe to demonstrate a major transition in dairying at the start of the Bronze Age. The rapid onset of ubiquitous dairying at a point in time when steppe populations are known to have begun dispersing offers critical insight into a key catalyst of steppe mobility. The identification of horse milk proteins also indicates horse domestication by the Early Bronze Age, which provides support for its role in steppe dispersals. Our results point to a potential epicentre for horse domestication in the Pontic-Caspian steppe by the third millennium bc, and offer strong support for the notion that the novel exploitation of secondary animal products was a key driver of the expansions of Eurasian steppe pastoralists by the Early Bronze Age.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature
ISSN
0028-0836
e-ISSN
1476-4687
Volume of the periodical
Neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
598
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
629-633
UT code for WoS article
000696175300002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85115169025