{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["635(8040)"],"submitter":["Ghalichi A"],"pubmed_abstract":["The Caucasus and surrounding areas, with their rich metal resources, became a crucible of the Bronze Age<sup>1</sup> and the birthplace of the earliest steppe pastoralist societies<sup>2</sup>. Yet, despite this region having a large influence on the subsequent development of Europe and Asia, questions remain regarding its hunter-gatherer past and its formation of expansionist mobile steppe societies<sup>3-5</sup>. Here we present new genome-wide data for 131 individuals from 38 archaeological sites spanning 6,000 years. We find a strong genetic differentiation between populations north and south of the Caucasus mountains during the Mesolithic, with Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry<sup>4,6</sup> in the north, and a distinct Caucasus hunter-gatherer ancestry<sup>7</sup> with increasing East"],"journal":["Nature"],"pagination":["917-925"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11602729"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus."],"pmcid":["PMC11602729"],"pubmed_authors":["Vardanyan B","Ghalichi A","Buzhilova AP","Erlikh VR","Saribekyan M","Yu H","Semerau L","Rohrlach AB","Mkrtchyan L","Bastert-Lamprichs K","Haak W","Piotrovskiy YY","Krause J","Mariaschk D","Kalmykov AA","Gambashidze I","Sheremetev AG","Stollner T","Malek-Custodis K","Magomedov RG","Maslov VE","Berezina NY","Lordkipanidze D","Posth C","Ochir M","Fazeli Nashli H","Hansen S","Broomandkhoshbacht N","Kantorovich AR","Kolesnichenko KB","Aron F","Berezin YB","Thomalsky J","Nagler A","Warinner C","Belinskiy AB","Fehren-Schmitz L","Reinhold S","Childebayeva A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus.","description":"The Caucasus and surrounding areas, with their rich metal resources, became a crucible of the Bronze Age<sup>1</sup> and the birthplace of the earliest steppe pastoralist societies<sup>2</sup>. Yet, despite this region having a large influence on the subsequent development of Europe and Asia, questions remain regarding its hunter-gatherer past and its formation of expansionist mobile steppe societies<sup>3-5</sup>. Here we present new genome-wide data for 131 individuals from 38 archaeological sites spanning 6,000 years. We find a strong genetic differentiation between populations north and south of the Caucasus mountains during the Mesolithic, with Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry<sup>4,6</sup> in the north, and a distinct Caucasus hunter-gatherer ancestry<sup>7</sup> with increasing East","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Nov","modification":"2025-04-04T02:39:07.666Z","creation":"2025-04-04T02:39:07.666Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11602729","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39478221"],"doi":["10.1038/s41586-024-08113-5"]}}