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    Genetic study The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus

    The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus Abstract The Caucasus and surrounding areas, with their rich metal resources, became a crucible of the Bronze Age- and the birthplace of the earliest steppe pastoralist societies. Yet, despite this region having a large...
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    Copper & Bronze Age Steppe people (PIE) had mixed light and dark pigmentation

    A very interesting new paper by Wilde et al. 2014 tested three genes (HERC2, SLC45A2 and TYR) associated with skin, eye and hair pigmentation in 63 ancient samples from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe (mostly modern Ukraine) dating from the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. The results are relatively...
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    • ancient dna bronze age copper age genetics indo-europeans pigmentation pontic steppe
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