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

Silvia Guimaraes; Benjamin S. Arbuckle; Joris Peters; Sarah E. Adcock; Hijlke Buitenhuis; Hannah Chazin; Ninna Manaseryan; Hans-Peter Uerpmann; Thierry Grange; Eva-Maria Geigl

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abb0030

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

View ORCID ProfileSilvia Guimaraes¹,*,†,
View ORCID ProfileBenjamin S. Arbuckle ²,*,
Joris Peters ³,⁴,
View ORCID ProfileSarah E. Adcock⁵,‡,
Hijlke Buitenhuis⁶,‡,
View ORCID ProfileHannah Chazin⁷,‡,
Ninna Manaseryan⁸,‡,
Hans-Peter Uerpmann⁹,‡,
View ORCID ProfileThierry Grange ¹,§ and
View ORCID ProfileEva-Maria Geigl ¹,§,||

¹Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University of Paris, Paris, France.
²Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
³ArchaeoBioCenter and Department of Veterinary Sciences, Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication and the History of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Kaulbachstraße 37/111, 80539 Munich, Germany.
⁴State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich, Bavarian Natural History Collections, Karolinenplatz 2a, 80333 Munich, Germany.
⁵Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
⁶Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, 9712 ER Groningen, Netherlands.
⁷Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.
⁸Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 7 Paruyr Sevak Str., Yerevan 0014, Armenia.
⁹Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Zentrum für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.

↵||Corresponding author. Email: eva-maria.geigl{at}ijm.fr

↵* These authors contributed equally as co-first authors.
↵† Present address: Archaeology of Social Dynamics, Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal.
↵‡ These authors are listed in alphabetical order.
↵§ These authors contributed equally as co-last authors.

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Science Advances 16 Sep 2020:
Vol. 6, no. 38, eabb0030
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb0030

Silvia Guimaraes

1Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University of Paris, Paris, France.

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Benjamin S. Arbuckle

2Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

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Joris Peters

3ArchaeoBioCenter and Department of Veterinary Sciences, Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication and the History of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Kaulbachstraße 37/111, 80539 Munich, Germany.

4State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich, Bavarian Natural History Collections, Karolinenplatz 2a, 80333 Munich, Germany.

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Sarah E. Adcock

5Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

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Hijlke Buitenhuis

6Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, 9712 ER Groningen, Netherlands.

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Hannah Chazin

7Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.

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Ninna Manaseryan

8Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 7 Paruyr Sevak Str., Yerevan 0014, Armenia.

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Hans-Peter Uerpmann

9Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Zentrum für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.

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Thierry Grange

1Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University of Paris, Paris, France.

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Eva-Maria Geigl

1Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University of Paris, Paris, France.

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