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In recent years, information about the genetic ancestry of various population groups that formed the cultural landscape of Eneolithic Eastern Europe became available. The data suggest genetic integration between the pastoralists of the North Pontic steppe and the farming populations of the forest-steppe area between the eastern Balkan-Carpathian region and the Dnieper River, adding to the cultural interactions documented between these groups by archaeology. These interactions shaped the foundation of the Yamnaya cultural complex in the early Bronze Age.

Keywords: archaeogenetics, North Pontic steppe, Eneolithic, Sredny Stog (Seredny Stig), Suvorovo-Novodanilovka (Suvorove-Novodanylivka), Yamnaya (Yamna, Pit Grave) culture

Information about author:

Alexey Nikitin (Allendale, Michigan, USA). Doctor of Philosophy. Grand Valley State University. Department of Biology, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, Michigan, 49401, USA
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3897-4607