"This migration corridor may have been established during the Last Glacial Maximum due to extensive glaciation in northern Eurasia and a consequent aridization of western Asia. This implies the demographic history for the European gene pool is more complex than previously considered and also has significant implications regarding the origin of Kurgan populations."
"Based on our recovery of East Eurasian mtDNA lineages in members of the DD
culture, we propose that the gene flow observed by Jacobs may have been derived from multiple sources. Considering that several of the Neolithic Ukrainians in this study show affinities with Near Eastern populations based on their mtDNA sequence variation, gene flow from Western Iran is still quite possible. However, the presence of haplogroup C in Neolithic Ukraine indicates that there is likely a Siberian component to the observed gene flow as well."
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"Neolithic bone samples were collected during archeological excavations in south-
central Ukraine at three Neolithic cemetery sites along the Dnieper River, north of the Black Sea (Figure 3). The Nikolskoye and Yasinkovatka cemeteries are located in the Podnieprovie steppe region and are relatively close to each other, albeit on opposite sides of the Dnieper River (Fig. 3; Telegin et al., 2002). The Dereivka site is located to the northwest, upstream of Nikolskoye and Yasinkovatka (Fig. 3). All three Neolithic sites are characteristic of the “Mariupol-type” pit graves in this region attributed to the DDculture complex (Telegin, 1987)."
"We also analyzed three Bronze Age individuals from southern Ukraine (Odessa
province) belonging to the Kurgan culture complex (Ivanova et al., 2005) (Table 3).
Specimen L8 was assigned to the Yamna (Pit Grave) archeological culture, D1.8 to the Catacomb culture, and L15 to the Mnogovalikovaya (KMK), or Babino, culture."
"Based on our recovery of East Eurasian mtDNA lineages in members of the DD
culture, we propose that the gene flow observed by Jacobs may have been derived from multiple sources. Considering that several of the Neolithic Ukrainians in this study show affinities with Near Eastern populations based on their mtDNA sequence variation, gene flow from Western Iran is still quite possible. However, the presence of haplogroup C in Neolithic Ukraine indicates that there is likely a Siberian component to the observed gene flow as well."
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"Neolithic bone samples were collected during archeological excavations in south-
central Ukraine at three Neolithic cemetery sites along the Dnieper River, north of the Black Sea (Figure 3). The Nikolskoye and Yasinkovatka cemeteries are located in the Podnieprovie steppe region and are relatively close to each other, albeit on opposite sides of the Dnieper River (Fig. 3; Telegin et al., 2002). The Dereivka site is located to the northwest, upstream of Nikolskoye and Yasinkovatka (Fig. 3). All three Neolithic sites are characteristic of the “Mariupol-type” pit graves in this region attributed to the DDculture complex (Telegin, 1987)."
"We also analyzed three Bronze Age individuals from southern Ukraine (Odessa
province) belonging to the Kurgan culture complex (Ivanova et al., 2005) (Table 3).
Specimen L8 was assigned to the Yamna (Pit Grave) archeological culture, D1.8 to the Catacomb culture, and L15 to the Mnogovalikovaya (KMK), or Babino, culture."