Sergey Vasilyev
A5065458832- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Dental Radiography and Imaging
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Soil and Environmental Studies
- Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms
- dental development and anomalies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Industrial Engineering and Technologies
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography
2017-2025
Russian Academy of Sciences
2017-2025
Institute of Ethnology
2017-2024
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
2019-2024
First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg
2015-2022
Russian State University for the Humanities
2022
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
2022
Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry
2021
Universidade de São Paulo
2020
Institute of Physics and Technology
2017-2019
Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band relatedness and inbreeding. When these wider networks evolved among HGs is unknown. To investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present Upper Paleolithic, we used complete genome sequences from Sunghir, site dated ~34,000 years before present, containing multiple anatomically modern human individuals. We show that...
Significance The bacterium Yersinia pestis has caused numerous historically documented outbreaks of plague and research using ancient DNA could demonstrate that it already affected human populations during the Neolithic. However, pathogen’s genetic diversity, geographic spread, transmission dynamics this early period Y. evolution are largely unexplored. Here, we describe a set genomes up to 5,000 y old from across Eurasia. Our data two genetically distinct forms evolved in parallel were both...
Aim . Current clinical recommendations accentuate current methods for the diagnosis and treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Key points. IBS is a functional disorder manifested with recurrent, at least weekly, abdominal pain following attributes (any two leastwise): link to defecation, its frequency or stool shape. The symptoms are expected persist minimum three months in total six-month follow-up. Similar other gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, can be diagnosed basing on patient...
Abstract The genetic formation of Central and South Asian populations has been unclear because an absence ancient DNA. To address this gap, we generated genome-wide data from 362 individuals, including the first eastern Iran, Turan (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan), Bronze Age Kazakhstan, Asia. Our reveal a complex set sources that ultimately combined to form ancestry Asians today. We document southward spread Eurasian Steppe, correlating with archaeologically known expansion...
The transition from Stone to Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of major population movements originating the Ponto-Caspian Steppe. Here, we report new genome-wide sequence data 30 individuals north this area, understudied western part present-day Russia, including 3 hunter-gatherers (10,800 4250 cal BCE) 26 farmers Corded Ware complex Fatyanovo Culture (2900 2050 BCE). We show that Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry present northwestern Russia already around 10,000 BCE....
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...
DNA recovery from ancient human remains has revolutionized our ability to reconstruct the genetic landscape of past. Ancient research benefited identification skeletal elements, such as cochlear part osseous inner ear, that provides optimal contexts for preservation; however, rich information obtained cochlea must be counterbalanced against loss morphological caused by its sampling. Motivated similarities in developmental processes and histological properties between auditory ossicles, we...
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...
Abstract Farming was first introduced to southeastern Europe in the mid-7 th millennium BCE – brought by migrants from Anatolia who settled region before spreading throughout Europe. To clarify dynamics of interaction between farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherers where they met, we analyze genome-wide ancient DNA data 223 individuals lived surrounding regions 12,000 500 BCE. We document previously uncharacterized genetic structure, showing a West-East cline ancestry hunter-gatherers, show...
Three isolated human deciduous teeth have been discovered in the course of working with collection from 2nd dwelling complex Kostenki 1(I) which is stored at IHMC RAS. No information about these has published until now. The come southern part complex; they were found not far hearth line. context their discovery testifies that neither structure nor filling this excavation radically differed those other studied areas complex, suggests occurrence cultural layer had a random character....
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Abstract As our human ancestors migrated into Eurasia, they faced a considerably harsher climate, but the extent to which cranial morphology has adapted this climate is still debated. In particular, it remains unclear when such facial adaptations arose in populations. Here, we explore climate-associated features of face shape worldwide modern sample using 3D geometric morphometrics and novel application reduced rank regression. Based on these data, assess two crucial Upper Palaeolithic...
Abstract Paleo-Eskimos were the first people to settle vast regions of American Arctic around 5,000 years ago, and subsequently joined largely displaced 1,000 ago by ancestors present-day Inuit Yupik. The genetic relationship between Native populations remains uncertain. We analyze ancient genome-wide data from Americas Siberia, including new Alaskan Iñupiat West Siberian populations, DNA Aleutian Islanders, northern Athabaskans, a 4,250-year-old individual Chukotkan Ust'-Belaya culture....
Abstract Transition from the Stone to Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of major population movements originating Ponto-Caspian Steppe. Here, we report new genome-wide sequence data 28 individuals territory north this source area – under-studied part present-day Russia, including hunter-gatherers (10,800–4,250 cal BC) farmers Corded Ware complex called Fatyanovo Culture (2,900–2,050 BC). We show that Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry present Northwestern Russia already...
Abstract Archaeologically defined Upper Palaeolithic (UP, 45,000–10,000 years ago) “cultures” are often used as proxies to designate fossil populations. While recent genomic studies have partly clarified the complex relationship between European UP and past population dynamics, they leave open numerous questions regarding biological characterization of these human groups, especially Mid-UP period (MUP, 33,000–24,000 ago), which encompasses a pan-European cultural mosaic (Gravettian) with...