000K utf8 1100 $c2022 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2024-00553-8 2051 10.1002/ajpa.24478 3000 Rogers, Leland Liu 3010 Kaestle, Frederika Ann 4000 Analysis of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup frequencies in the population of the slab burial mortuary culture of Mongolia (ca. 1100–300 BCE)$hWiley [Rogers, Leland Liu] 4030 $nWiley 4209 Recent research has shown evidence of ancient admixture from both eastern and western Eurasian genetics in the human populations of Mongolia going back to at least the Eneolithic Afanasievo archaeological culture (ca. 3000 BCE). Eastern mtDNA lineages found in ancient and living Mongolians in the past and present have greatest affinity with Neolithic populations from the Transbaikal region of southern Siberia, suggesting that people from this region were likely the first to colonize northern and eastern Mongolia after the last glacial maximum (ca. 24,500–17,000 BCE), while western Eurasian groups probably migrated to the steppe in association with the earliest forms of pastoralism. While some studies suggest the contribution of these ancient western lineages to the modern populations in Mongolia was minimal, this research demonstrates that western mtDNA lineages were particularly prominent among the burial populations of the Early Iron and Iron Ages in the region. This is most notable among the burial population associated with slab burials and the burial population of their successors, the people associated with the Xiongnu polity (209 BCE–91 CE). Similarities between mtDNA haplogroup frequencies of the slab burial and Xiongnu burial populations also strongly support the proposal that the builders of the slab burials were the principal ancestors of the Xiongnu people. 4950 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24478$xR$3Volltext$534 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2024-00553-8$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00004838 5051 560 5550 ancient DNA 5550 bronze age 5550 Mongolia 5550 slab burial 5550 Xiongnu