Pages: 115-128 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/SL22115128

The Fatyanovo archaeological culture, which spread over the territory from Ilmen and Pskov Lake to Kama and Vyatka and from the Vologda region to the Desna river, today is called the “forgotten child” of a large family of Corded Ware cultures. In recent years, the study of the origin of the Fatyanovo people, in many respects, depends on the results of the analysis of ancient DNA. The archaeological DNA of 11 male individuals of the Bronze Age belonging to the Fatyanovo culture from the Volosovo-Danilovo burial ground were comprehensively studied. The STR markers of the Y chromosome were determined by the method of fragment analysis. The obtained haplotypes were indicative of the unity of the haplogroup of the studied individuals, but also of the absence of a close relationship between them. According to the results of NGS performed using a custom panel, SNP markers determining the Y-chromosomal haplogroup R1a (Z93) were reliably (with high coverage) identified, phenotypic signs, such as eye color — brown, hair color — dark, skin color — intermediate. The analysis of the signs of authenticity of archaeological DNA was carried out, the degree of contamination was assessed. The methods of bioinformatic analysis based on the results of NGS of the autosomal part of DNA demonstrated the similarity of the results of sequencing of the studied archaeological DNA samples published earlier, obtained for samples belonging to the Fatyanovo culture by another team of researchers who had used a different method.

Keywords: the Bronze Age, migrations, NGS, STR, SNP, bioinformatics, PCA method

Information about authors:

Asya Engovatova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-3109-2764
Kharis Mustafin (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-8891-2319
Irina Alborova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-1950-3885
Alexander Kanapin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). PhD. Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University. 29 Polytechnicheskaya st., St.Petersburg, 195251, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-9802-5297
Anastasia Samsonova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). PhD. Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University. 29 Polytechnicheskaya st., St.Petersburg, 195251, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Maria Mednicova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]