Oldest Known Wagon-Driver on GEDmatch

Tomenable said:

This guy is the oldest known wagon-driver. He was buried sitting on the oldest wagon discovered so far:

SA6004 Oldest Wagon-Driver
Y-DNA haplogroup - Q1a2
mtDNA haplogroup - U7b

GEDmatch Genesis kit - XU8528493

Eurogenes Blog about this burial: https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2019/03/an-exceptional-burial-indeed-but-not.html

"Not too many people have been buried sitting on wagons. The most famous case is that of an Early Bronze Age man who, considering his injuries, may have died in a high-speed crash - high-speed for its time anyway - on the Pontic-Caspian Steppe in Eastern Europe. It's likely that this guy was one of the very first wagon-drivers in human history, because his four-wheeled wooden model is dated to 3336-3105 calBCE, which makes it the oldest wagon discovered thus far. His genotype data, under the label Steppe Maykop SA6004, were published recently along with Wang et al. 2019."

He was related to Ancient North Eurasians such MA-1 Mal'ta Boy from Siberia:


Eurogenes K15:


Admix Results (sorted):


# Population Percent
1 Eastern_Euro 40.81
2 West_Asian 14.92
3 Amerindian 12.59
4 South_Asian 12.08
5 North_Sea 11.15
6 Baltic 8.45


Single Population Sharing:


# Population (source) Distance
1 MA-1 25.05
2 Chuvash 27.65
3 Erzya 29.94
4 Tatar 30.11
5 Kargopol_Russian 31.1
6 Mari 31.73
7 Tadjik 33.98
8 East_Finnish 34.37
9 Ukrainian_Belgorod 34.47
10 Southwest_Russian 34.72
11 Moldavian 35.26
12 Afghan_Pashtun 36
13 Ukrainian 36.4
14 Afghan_Tadjik 36.61
15 Russian_Smolensk 36.8
16 Afghan_Uzbeki 36.89
17 Ukrainian_Lviv 36.92
18 Estonian_Polish 36.95
19 Croatian 37.07
20 South_Polish 37.14


Mixed Mode Population Sharing:


# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 63.4% MA-1 + 36.6% Tabassaran @ 15.84
2 65.1% MA-1 + 34.9% Lezgin @ 16.2
3 57.1% MA-1 + 42.9% Erzya @ 16.77
4 67.6% MA-1 + 32.4% Chechen @ 16.88
5 62.3% MA-1 + 37.7% Ukrainian_Belgorod @ 17.36
6 59% MA-1 + 41% Kargopol_Russian @ 17.54
7 69.1% MA-1 + 30.9% Kabardin @ 17.61
8 62.7% MA-1 + 37.3% Southwest_Russian @ 17.67
9 70.4% MA-1 + 29.6% Adygei @ 17.69
10 54.6% MA-1 + 45.4% Chuvash @ 17.92
11 68.4% MA-1 + 31.6% Kumyk @ 17.93
12 70.1% MA-1 + 29.9% Balkar @ 17.94
13 72% MA-1 + 28% North_Ossetian @ 18.06
14 58.2% MA-1 + 41.8% Tatar @ 18.09
15 71.9% MA-1 + 28.1% Ossetian @ 18.17
16 63.7% MA-1 + 36.3% Moldavian @ 18.19
17 64.8% MA-1 + 35.2% Ukrainian @ 18.28
18 65.4% MA-1 + 34.6% South_Polish @ 18.32
19 65.2% MA-1 + 34.8% Russian_Smolensk @ 18.37
20 65.4% MA-1 + 34.6% Ukrainian_Lviv @ 18.44


Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% MA-1 +25% Mari +25% Tabassaran @ 15.714045

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The calibrated C14 dates of Afanas'evo material are generally slightly earlier than those taken from Yamnaya contexts in the western steppe, which complicates a diffusionist explanation of the emergence of pastoralists in the eastern steppe. Although their origins may be obscure, communities associated with Afanas'evo materials still represent the earliest mobile pastoralists east of the Ural Mountains... [their] incipient strategy of cattle and sheep/goat herding, supplemented by hunting and fishing. The Afanas'evo subsistence economy might best be characterized as a mixed or transitional form between hunting/fishing and localized pastoralism, arising from local antecedents or combining native strategies with diffused domestic innovations among local populations. ...Perhaps the strongest evidence that divides the Yamnaya and Afanas'evo pastoralists in the mid-fourth millenium BCE is the discontinuity of pastoral economic strategies among societies living between these territories." [6]

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