Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 43 (2) 2015

Annotation:  Blade and Microblade Industries in Northern, Eastern and Central Asia 1. African Origin and Spread t The Evidence of Rock Art in Iranian Makran: Aps-e Goalm and Kouhbodan-e Jor Petroglyphs, Qasr-e Qand New Findings Relating to the Maikop-Novosvobodnaya Burial Rite Horn Figurines from an Okunev Burial on Lake Itkul, Khakassia, Southern Siberia An Anthropomorphic Horn Figurine from the Northern Foothills of the Kuznetsky Alatau, Southern Siber A Funerary Complex of the Sintashta Age at Maloyuldashevo I, Western Orenburg Region Dwellings and Utility Structures at Linevo-1 – a Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Settlement in the Sal The Reconstruction of Cultural Processes in the Forest-Steppe Ob Basin During the Early Iron Age, B Unusual New Findings at Filippovka-1 Burial Mound 1, Southern Urals Ancient Turkic Stone Statues at Tuura-Suu, Kyrgyzstan Metal Details of Mongolian Age Belt-Sets from the Angara Taiga Gods and Humans: Living Under the Same Roof A Genetic Analysis of Human Remains from Ak-Alakha-3 Burial Mound 1, Gorny Altai The Nanay Clan Samar: The Structure of Gene Pool Based on Y-Chromosome Markers   

A Genetic Analysis of Human Remains from Ak-Alakha-3 Burial Mound 1, Gorny Altai

A.S. Pilipenko, R.O. Trapezov, and N.V. Polosmak.

A genetic analysis of human remains from burial 1 in mound 1 at Ak-Alakha-3, Gorny Altai, focused on mitochondrial DNA, sex markers, and autosomal hypervariable STR markers. Variants of mtDNA extracted from the remains of an adult individual and a child fall into Eastern Eurasian haplogroups A4 and C, respectively, which are common in modern and prehistoric populations of Gorny Altai and the adjacent regions of southern Siberia and Central Asia. These variants must be considered autochthonous in the gene pool of the Early Iron Age Altai, and were shared by otherwise dissimilar populations of that region in the Scythian Age. The adult individual was shown to be male, and the child was a girl. The results corroborate the effi ciency of aDNA testing using the well preserved cancellous bone samples.

Keywords: Paleogenetics, ancient DNA, mitochondrial DNA, sex markers, Gorny Altai, Pazyryk culture, Kara-Koba burials.