Progressively cooler, drier interglacials in southern Russia through the Quaternary: Evidence from the Sea of Azov region

Величко, А.А.; Catto, Norm; Kononov, Yu. D.; Морозова, Т. Д.; Novenko, Elena; Панин, П.Г.; Ryskov, G. Ya; Семенов, В. В.; Тимирева, С.Н.; Titov, Vadim; Tesakov, Alexey S.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.06.005

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“…Facilitated by the East-West extension of vegetation zones between the Russian Far East and Eastern Europe [65], long-distance contacts and connections across Eurasia have been proposed for a number of cases. For example, the North East and East European hunter-gatherer pottery is thought to have originated in the early ceramic traditions of the Russian Far East and Siberia [66]–[68].…”

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Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of North East Europe

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North East Europe harbors a high diversity of cultures and languages, suggesting a complex genetic history. Archaeological, anthropological, and genetic research has revealed a series of influences from Western and Eastern Eurasia in the past. While genetic data from modern-day populations is commonly used to make inferences about their origins and past migrations, ancient DNA provides a powerful test of such hypotheses by giving a snapshot of the past genetic diversity. In order to better understand the dynamics that have shaped the gene pool of North East Europeans, we generated and analyzed 34 mitochondrial genotypes from the skeletal remains of three archaeological sites in northwest Russia. These sites were dated to the Mesolithic and the Early Metal Age (7,500 and 3,500 uncalibrated years Before Present). We applied a suite of population genetic analyses (principal component analysis, genetic distance mapping, haplotype sharing analyses) and compared past demographic models through coalescent simulations using Bayesian Serial SimCoal and Approximate Bayesian Computation. Comparisons of genetic data from ancient and modern-day populations revealed significant changes in the mitochondrial makeup of North East Europeans through time. Mesolithic foragers showed high frequencies and diversity of haplogroups U (U2e, U4, U5a), a pattern observed previously in European hunter-gatherers from Iberia to Scandinavia. In contrast, the presence of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups C, D, and Z in Early Metal Age individuals suggested discontinuity with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and genetic influx from central/eastern Siberia. We identified remarkable genetic dissimilarities between prehistoric and modern-day North East Europeans/Saami, which suggests an important role of post-Mesolithic migrations from Western Europe and subsequent population replacement/extinctions. This work demonstrates how ancient DNA can improve our understanding of human population movements across Eurasia. It contributes to the description of the spatio-temporal distribution of mitochondrial diversity and will be of significance for future reconstructions of the history of Europeans.

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Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of North East Europe

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“…The average value of MGS was 19.6 μm, and the curves of CaCO 3 and L* varied within a range of low value, indicating warm and wet climate and soil formation. Compared to L4, the climate conditions of S3 were also warm and wet, but cooler and harsher than that of the preceding Inzhavino pedocomplex (Velichko et al 2009b). During this stage, landscapes of the optimum epoch of the younger Inzhavino soil complex (MIS 9, 300-340 ka B.P., developed on Korostylevo loess of the Oka glaciation) corresponded to the moderate climatic zone (Velichko et al 2012).…”

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Paleoclimatic record from Chumbur-Kosa section in Sea of Azov region since Marine Isotope Stage 11

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“…The existence of fresh outcrops and the lack of previous research make them ideal for a structural-textural investigation and numerical age determination. Quartz is abundant in these sediments; because of its mechanical and chemical resistance, the analysis of its shape and the surface character, as well as the proportion of other types of minerals within the sediments give information on paleoenvironmental conditions (Vieira et al, 2003;Darrénougué et al, 2009;Velichko et al, 2009;Woronko, 2012;. In addition, associated processes such as weathering, corrasion and deflation (Akulov and Rubtsova, 2011;Woronko and Hoch, 2011), and the source and maturity of the deposits (Muhs, 2004;Kasper-Zubillaga and Zolezzi-Ruiz, 2007) are investigated.…”

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Age and sedimentary record of inland eolian sediments in Lithuania, NE European Sand Belt

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We present a study based on four inland eolian locations in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Lithuania belonging to the northeastern part of the 'European Sand Belt' (ESB). Although there have been several previous studies of the ESB, this north-eastern extension has not been investigated before in any detail. The sedimentary structural-textural features are investigated and a chronology was derived using optically stimulated luminescence on both quartz and feldspar. The sedimentary structures and the rounding and surface characteristics of the quartz grains argue for a predominance of eolian transport. Additionally, some structural alternations and a significant contribution of non-eolian grains are interpreted as inherited local glacial/glaciofluvial-bearing lithologies. Three main (glaciolacustrine-) eolian phases are distinguished based on the position in the landscape and the luminescence ages: (1) An older eolian series around 15 to 16 ka, possibly correlated with the cold GS-2a event according to the GRIP stratigraphy, and (2) a younger eolian series around 14.0 ka, possibly representing the GI-1d and 1c events. The older eolian series is underlain by (3) a glaciolacustrine-eolian series for which the period of deposition remains uncertain due to the significant discrepancy between the ages based on quartz and feldspar.

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Progressively cooler, drier interglacials in southern Russia through the Quaternary: Evidence from the Sea of Azov region

Cited by 32 publications

References 8 publications

Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of North East Europe

Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of North East Europe

Paleoclimatic record from Chumbur-Kosa section in Sea of Azov region since Marine Isotope Stage 11

Age and sedimentary record of inland eolian sediments in Lithuania, NE European Sand Belt

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