Ancient Migrations into Eurasian Steppe Revealed by Genetic Analysis of Ancient mtDNA

Presentation Type

Poster/Portfolio

Presenter Major(s)

Nursing

Mentor Information

Alexey Nikitin

Department

Biology

Location

Henry Hall Atrium 93

Start Date

11-4-2012 9:00 AM

Keywords

Historical Perspectives, Life Science

Abstract

The study of human DNA helps to understand human migratory patterns throughout the past. By analysis of the maternally inherited mitochondrial genome (mtDNA), phylogenetic relationships between geographically distinct populations can be deduced through region-specific mtDNA lineage (haplogroup) assignment. The analysis of mtDNA lineages extracted from the remains of seven specimens from three pre-historic burial mounds in southern Ukraine has given us greater understanding of the magnitude of prehistoric migrations during a time of cultural, technological and ecological change. By piecing together the archeological details of individual burials and the geographic origins of mtDNA lineages, we see a dynamic continuum of long distance human travel to the Black Sea from as far as Siberia and Central Asia, likely precipitated by a cooling environment and sustained by stockbreeding and the new power of copper trade.

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Ancient Migrations into Eurasian Steppe Revealed by Genetic Analysis of Ancient mtDNA

Henry Hall Atrium 93

The study of human DNA helps to understand human migratory patterns throughout the past. By analysis of the maternally inherited mitochondrial genome (mtDNA), phylogenetic relationships between geographically distinct populations can be deduced through region-specific mtDNA lineage (haplogroup) assignment. The analysis of mtDNA lineages extracted from the remains of seven specimens from three pre-historic burial mounds in southern Ukraine has given us greater understanding of the magnitude of prehistoric migrations during a time of cultural, technological and ecological change. By piecing together the archeological details of individual burials and the geographic origins of mtDNA lineages, we see a dynamic continuum of long distance human travel to the Black Sea from as far as Siberia and Central Asia, likely precipitated by a cooling environment and sustained by stockbreeding and the new power of copper trade.