TY - JOUR
T1 - Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal
AU - Feuerborn, Tatiana R.
AU - Carmagnini, Alberto
AU - Losey, Robert J.
AU - Nomokonova, Tatiana
AU - Askeyev, Arthur
AU - Askeyev, Igor
AU - Askeyev, Oleg
AU - Antipina, Ekaterina E.
AU - Appelt, Martin
AU - Bachura, Olga P.
AU - Beglane, Fiona
AU - Bradley, Daniel G.
AU - Daly, Kevin G.
AU - Gopalakrishnan, Shyam
AU - Gregersen, Kristian Murphy
AU - Guo, Chunxue
AU - Gusev, Andrei V.
AU - Jones, Carleton
AU - Kosintsev, Pavel A.
AU - Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.
AU - Mattiangeli, Valeria
AU - Perri, Angela R.
AU - Plekhanov, Andrei V.
AU - Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín
AU - Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth
AU - Shaymuratova, Dilyara
AU - Smith, Oliver
AU - Yavorskaya, Lilia V.
AU - Zhang, Guojie
AU - Willerslev, Eske
AU - Meldgaard, Morten
AU - Gilbert, M. Thomas P.
AU - Larson, Greger
AU - Dalén, Love
AU - Hansen, Anders J.
AU - Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.
AU - Frantz, Laurent
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Dogs have been essential to life in the Siberian Arctic for over 9,500 y, and this tight link between people and dogs continues in Siberian communities. Although Arctic Siberian groups such as the Nenets received limited gene flow from neighboring groups, archaeological evidence suggests that metallurgy and new subsistence strategies emerged in Northwest Siberia around 2,000 y ago. It is unclear if the Siberian Arctic dog population was as continuous as the people of the region or if instead admixture occurred, possibly in relation to the influx of material culture from other parts of Eurasia. To address this question, we sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 20 ancient and historical Siberian and Eurasian Steppe dogs. Our analyses indicate that while Siberian dogs were genetically homogenous between 9,500 to 7,000 y ago, later introduction of dogs from the Eurasian Steppe and Europe led to substantial admixture. This is clearly the case in the Iamal-Nenets region (Northwestern Siberia) where dogs from the Iron Age period (∼2,000 y ago) possess substantially less ancestry related to European and Steppe dogs than dogs from the medieval period (∼1,000 y ago). Combined with findings of nonlocal materials recovered from these archaeological sites, including glass beads and metal items, these results indicate that Northwest Siberian communities were connected to a larger trade network through which they acquired genetically distinctive dogs from other regions. These exchanges were part of a series of major societal changes, including the rise of large-scale reindeer pastoralism ∼800 y ago.
AB - Dogs have been essential to life in the Siberian Arctic for over 9,500 y, and this tight link between people and dogs continues in Siberian communities. Although Arctic Siberian groups such as the Nenets received limited gene flow from neighboring groups, archaeological evidence suggests that metallurgy and new subsistence strategies emerged in Northwest Siberia around 2,000 y ago. It is unclear if the Siberian Arctic dog population was as continuous as the people of the region or if instead admixture occurred, possibly in relation to the influx of material culture from other parts of Eurasia. To address this question, we sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 20 ancient and historical Siberian and Eurasian Steppe dogs. Our analyses indicate that while Siberian dogs were genetically homogenous between 9,500 to 7,000 y ago, later introduction of dogs from the Eurasian Steppe and Europe led to substantial admixture. This is clearly the case in the Iamal-Nenets region (Northwestern Siberia) where dogs from the Iron Age period (∼2,000 y ago) possess substantially less ancestry related to European and Steppe dogs than dogs from the medieval period (∼1,000 y ago). Combined with findings of nonlocal materials recovered from these archaeological sites, including glass beads and metal items, these results indicate that Northwest Siberian communities were connected to a larger trade network through which they acquired genetically distinctive dogs from other regions. These exchanges were part of a series of major societal changes, including the rise of large-scale reindeer pastoralism ∼800 y ago.
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2100338118
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2100338118
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 118
SP - e2100338118
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
IS - 39
ER -