Bronze Age population dynamics and the rise of dairy pastoralism on the eastern Eurasian steppe

  • Choongwon Jeong
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Shevan Wilkin
    Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Tsend Amgalantugs
    Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 14200 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia;
  • Abigail S. Bouwman
    Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland;
  • William Timothy Treal Taylor
    Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Richard W. Hagan
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Sabri Bromage
    Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;
  • Soninkhishig Tsolmon
    Nutrition and Biotechnology Department, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, 14191 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia;
  • Christian Trachsel
    Functional Genomics Centre Zürich, University of Zürich/Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland;
  • Jonas Grossmann
    Functional Genomics Centre Zürich, University of Zürich/Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland;
  • Judith Littleton
    Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, 1010 Auckland, New Zealand;
  • Cheryl A. Makarewicz
    Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian Albrechts University, 21118 Kiel, Germany;
  • John Krigbaum
    Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611;
  • Marta Burri
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Ashley Scott
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Ganmaa Davaasambuu
    Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115;
  • Joshua Wright
    Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3FX Aberdeen, United Kingdom;
  • Franziska Irmer
    Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Erdene Myagmar
    Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, National University of Mongolia, 14200 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia;
  • Nicole Boivin
    Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Martine Robbeets
    The Eurasia3angle Project, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Frank J. Rühli
    Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland;
  • Johannes Krause
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Bruno Frohlich
    Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560;
  • Jessica Hendy
    Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;
  • Christina Warinner
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany;

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<jats:p>Recent paleogenomic studies have shown that migrations of Western steppe herders (WSH) beginning in the Eneolithic (ca. 3300–2700 BCE) profoundly transformed the genes and cultures of Europe and central Asia. Compared with Europe, however, the eastern extent of this WSH expansion is not well defined. Here we present genomic and proteomic data from 22 directly dated Late Bronze Age burials putatively associated with early pastoralism in northern Mongolia (ca. 1380–975 BCE). Genome-wide analysis reveals that they are largely descended from a population represented by Early Bronze Age hunter-gatherers in the Baikal region, with only a limited contribution (∼7%) of WSH ancestry. At the same time, however, mass spectrometry analysis of dental calculus provides direct protein evidence of bovine, sheep, and goat milk consumption in seven of nine individuals. No individuals showed molecular evidence of lactase persistence, and only one individual exhibited evidence of >10% WSH ancestry, despite the presence of WSH populations in the nearby Altai-Sayan region for more than a millennium. Unlike the spread of Neolithic farming in Europe and the expansion of Bronze Age pastoralism on the Western steppe, our results indicate that ruminant dairy pastoralism was adopted on the Eastern steppe by local hunter-gatherers through a process of cultural transmission and minimal genetic exchange with outside groups.</jats:p>

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