Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia.

ABSTRACT: Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here, we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial mound attributed to the Bronze Age Srubnaya-Alakul cultural tradition at the site of Nepluyevsky, located in the Southern Ural region of Central Eurasia. We found that life expectancy was generally very low, with adult males living on average 8 y longer than females. A total of 35 first-degree, 40 second-degree, and 48 third-degree biological relationships connected 23 of the studied individuals, allowing us to propose a family tree spanning three generations with six brothers at its center. The oldest of these brothers had eight children with two women and the most children overall, whereas the other relati

SUBMITTER: Blocher J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10483636 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature