Ion Ciobanu
A5060327465- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Marine and environmental studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
National Archaeological Museum
2022
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize Chalcolithic period Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on steppe, then spread southward into Balkans across Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal...
Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from general population included both people with some steppe ancestry others, like Griffin Warrior, without it. Similarly, central area Urartian Kingdom around Lake Van lacked characteristic kingdom's northern provinces. Anatolia exhibited extraordinary continuity down to Roman Byzantine...
Ancient DNA sampling methods—although optimized for efficient extraction—are destructive, relying on drilling or cutting and powdering (parts of) bones teeth. As the field of ancient has grown, so have concerns about impact destructive skeletal remains from which is obtained. Due to a particularly high concentration endogenous DNA, cementum tooth roots often targeted sampling, but methods result in loss at least one entire root. Here, we present minimally method extracting dental surface...
We present the first ancient DNA data from Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, Northwestern Zagros, along with Armenia. show that these neighboring populations were formed through admixture pre-Neolithic sources related to Anatolian, Caucasus, Levantine hunter-gatherers, forming a continuum ancestry mirroring geography West Asia. By analyzing Pottery Anatolia, we former derived between Mesopotamian-related local Epipaleolithic-related...
The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300BCE across the steppes north of Black and Caspian Seas, by 3000BCE reached its maximal extent from Hungary in west to Kazakhstan east. To localize ancestral geographical origins among diverse Eneolithic people that preceded them, we studied ancient DNA data 428 individuals which 299 are reported for first time, demonstrating three previously unknown genetic clines. First, a “Caucasus-Lower Volga” (CLV) Cline suffused with Caucasus...
In 2020, the National Agency for Archaeology conducted preventive archaeological research at barrow No. 8 in Hanasenii Noi, Leova district. As a result of investigation, 9 graves and 11 pits were discovered. The initial mound was constructed above three Late Eneolithic graves, subsequently destroyed, attributed to Cernavoda I culture. Later on, following burials identified within mound: grave, likely associated with Jivotilovka culture, pit burial Yamnaya two Catacomb one Multi-pit grave...
ABSTRACT Ancient DNA sampling methods—although optimized for efficient extraction—are destructive, relying on drilling or cutting and powdering (parts of) bones teeth. As the field of ancient has grown, so have concerns about impact destructive skeletal remains from which is obtained. Due to a particularly high concentration endogenous DNA, cementum tooth roots often targeted sampling, but standard methods result in loss at least one entire root. Here, we present minimally method extracting...