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Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age

Despite the important roles that horses have played in human history, particularly in the spread of languages and cultures, and correspondingly intensive research on this topic, the origin of domestic horses remains elusive. Several domestication centers have been hypothesized, but most of these hav...

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Autores principales: Guimaraes, Silvia, Arbuckle, Benjamin S., Peters, Joris, Adcock, Sarah E., Buitenhuis, Hijlke, Chazin, Hannah, Manaseryan, Ninna, Uerpmann, Hans-Peter, Grange, Thierry, Geigl, Eva-Maria
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Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32938680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0030
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author Guimaraes, Silvia
Arbuckle, Benjamin S.
Peters, Joris
Adcock, Sarah E.
Buitenhuis, Hijlke
Chazin, Hannah
Manaseryan, Ninna
Uerpmann, Hans-Peter
Grange, Thierry
Geigl, Eva-Maria
author_facet Guimaraes, Silvia
Arbuckle, Benjamin S.
Peters, Joris
Adcock, Sarah E.
Buitenhuis, Hijlke
Chazin, Hannah
Manaseryan, Ninna
Uerpmann, Hans-Peter
Grange, Thierry
Geigl, Eva-Maria
author_sort Guimaraes, Silvia
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description Despite the important roles that horses have played in human history, particularly in the spread of languages and cultures, and correspondingly intensive research on this topic, the origin of domestic horses remains elusive. Several domestication centers have been hypothesized, but most of these have been invalidated through recent paleogenetic studies. Anatolia is a region with an extended history of horse exploitation that has been considered a candidate for the origins of domestic horses but has never been subject to detailed investigation. Our paleogenetic study of pre- and protohistoric horses in Anatolia and the Caucasus, based on a diachronic sample from the early Neolithic to the Iron Age (~8000 to ~1000 BCE) that encompasses the presumed transition from wild to domestic horses (4000 to 3000 BCE), shows the rapid and large-scale introduction of domestic horses at the end of the third millennium BCE. Thus, our results argue strongly against autochthonous independent domestication of horses in Anatolia.
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spelling pubmed-74943392020-09-23 Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age Guimaraes, Silvia Arbuckle, Benjamin S. Peters, Joris Adcock, Sarah E. Buitenhuis, Hijlke Chazin, Hannah Manaseryan, Ninna Uerpmann, Hans-Peter Grange, Thierry Geigl, Eva-Maria Sci Adv Research Articles Despite the important roles that horses have played in human history, particularly in the spread of languages and cultures, and correspondingly intensive research on this topic, the origin of domestic horses remains elusive. Several domestication centers have been hypothesized, but most of these have been invalidated through recent paleogenetic studies. Anatolia is a region with an extended history of horse exploitation that has been considered a candidate for the origins of domestic horses but has never been subject to detailed investigation. Our paleogenetic study of pre- and protohistoric horses in Anatolia and the Caucasus, based on a diachronic sample from the early Neolithic to the Iron Age (~8000 to ~1000 BCE) that encompasses the presumed transition from wild to domestic horses (4000 to 3000 BCE), shows the rapid and large-scale introduction of domestic horses at the end of the third millennium BCE. Thus, our results argue strongly against autochthonous independent domestication of horses in Anatolia. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7494339/ /pubmed/32938680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0030 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Articles
Guimaraes, Silvia
Arbuckle, Benjamin S.
Peters, Joris
Adcock, Sarah E.
Buitenhuis, Hijlke
Chazin, Hannah
Manaseryan, Ninna
Uerpmann, Hans-Peter
Grange, Thierry
Geigl, Eva-Maria
Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age
title Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age
title_full Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age
title_fullStr Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age
title_full_unstemmed Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age
title_short Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age
title_sort ancient dna shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern caucasus and anatolia during the bronze age
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32938680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0030
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