During the 1st millennium before the Common Era (BCE), nomadic tribes associated with
the Iron Age Scythian culture spread over the Eurasian Steppe, covering a territory of more …

The contribution of palaeogenetic data to the study of various aspects of hominin biology
and evolution has been significant, and has the potential to increase substantially with the …

After 568 AD the Avars settled in the Carpathian Basin and founded the Avar Qaganate that
was an important power in Central Europe until the 9th century. Part of the Avar society was …

A recent discovery of Iron Age burials (Pazyryk culture) in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia
may shed light on the mode and tempo of the generation of the current genetic east-west …

In this paper we present archaeological and anthropological data on human migrations in
the Western Siberian foreststeppe region during the Bronze Age (4th–beginning of 1st …

Scythians were nomadic and semi-nomadic people that ruled the Eurasian steppe during
much of the first millennium BCE. While having been extensively studied by archaeology …

Early nomads in the Eurasian steppes since the beginning of the 1st millennium BC played
a key role in the formation of the cultural and genetic landscape of populations of a …

The Mongolian horse is one of the most ancient and relatively unmanaged horse breeds.
The population history of the Mongolian horse remains poorly understood due to a lack of …

Although the rabbit is a frequently used biological model, the phenotype of rabbit adipose-
derived mesenchymal stem cells (rAT-MSCs) is not well characterized. One of the reasons is …

Background The craniometric specificity of the indigenous West Siberian human populations
cannot be completely explained by the genetic interactions of the western and eastern …