A5032242962- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Forensic and Genetic Research
Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
2020
The Eastern Eurasian Steppe was home to historic empires of nomadic pastoralists, including the Xiongnu and Mongols. However, little is known about region's population history. Here, we reveal its dynamic genetic history by analyzing new genome-wide data for 214 ancient individuals spanning 6,000 years. We identify a pastoralist expansion into Mongolia ca. 3000 BCE, Late Bronze Age, Mongolian populations were biogeographically structured three distinct groups, all practicing dairy...
<ns3:p><ns3:bold>Background:</ns3:bold> The archaeological and ethnographic heritages of Mongolia reflect a multi-millennial continuity typically mobile-pastoral occupations across sparsely populated, environmentally diverse landscapes, but the threats modernisation industrialisation to those are nevertheless present substantial. construction Erdeneburen Hydroelectric Dam on Khovd River in western is planned submerge hundreds features jeopardise at least another thousand.</ns3:p><ns3:p>...
Recent studies show that, in the 3rd millennium BC, highlands basin of upper reaches Khovd (Kobdo) River constituted a ritual zone, which was particular importance for population inhabiting western foothills Mongolian Altai Mountains. Its cultural singularity due to so-called Chemurchek phenomenon — set characteristics West European origin, appeared there no later than 2700–2600 BC. Three large-scale complexes-‘shrines’ attributed this period were discovered area Lake Dayan Nuur. Excavations...