The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
Pablo Librado
1
,
NAVEED KHAN
1, 2
,
Antoine Fages
1
,
Mariya A Kusliy
1, 3
,
Tomasz Suchan
1, 4
,
Laure Tonasso Calvière
1
,
Stéphanie Schiavinato
1
,
Duha Alioglu
1
,
Aurore Fromentier
1
,
Aude Perdereau
5
,
Jean-Marc Aury
6
,
Charleen Gaunitz
1
,
Lorelei Chauvey
1
,
Andaine Seguin-Orlando
1
,
Clio Der Sarkissian
1
,
John Southon
7
,
Beth Shapiro
8, 9
,
Alexey A Tishkin
10
,
Alexey Kovalev
11
,
Saleh Alquraishi
12
,
Ahmed H. Alfarhan
12
,
K. A. S. Al-Rasheid
12
,
Timo Seregély
13
,
Lutz Klassen
14
,
Rune Iversen
15
,
Olivier Bignon-Lau
16
,
Pierre Bodu
16
,
Monique Olive
16
,
Jean-Christophe Castel
17
,
Myriam Boudadi Maligne
18
,
Nadir Alvarez
19, 20
,
Mietje Germonpré
21
,
Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo
4
,
Jarosław Wilczyński
22
,
Sylwia Pospuła
22
,
Anna Lasota Kuś
23
,
Krzysztof Tunia
23
,
Marek Nowak
24
,
Eve Rannamäe
25
,
Urmas Saarma
26
,
Gennady Boeskorov
27
,
Lembi Lõugas
28
,
René Kyselý
29
,
Lubomír Peške
30
,
Adrian Bălășescu
31
,
Valentin Dumitrascu
31
,
Roxana Dobrescu
31
,
Daniel Gerber
32, 33
,
Viktória Kiss
34
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Anna Szécsényi-Nagy
32
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Balázs G Mende
32
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Zsolt Gallina
35
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Krisztina Somogyi
36
,
Gabriella Kulcsár
34
,
Erika Gál
34
,
Robin Bendrey
37
,
Morten E. Allentoft
38, 39
,
Ghenadie Sirbu
40
,
Valentin Dergachev
41
,
Henry Shephard
42
,
Noémie Tomadini
43
,
Sandrine Grouard
43
,
Aleksei Kasparov
44
,
Alexander E Basilyan
45
,
Mikhail A Anisimov
46
,
Pavel A Nikolskiy
45
,
Elena Y Pavlova
46
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Vladimir Pitulko
44
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Gottfried Brem
47
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Barbara P. Wallner
47
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Christoph Schwall
48
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Marcel Keller
49, 50
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Keiko Kitagawa
51, 52, 53
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Alexander N Bessudnov
54
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William Taylor
55
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Jérôme Magail
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Diimaajav Erdenebaatar
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BAZARTSEREN BOLDGIV
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Turbat Tsagaan
57
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Melanie Pruvost
18
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Sandra Olsen
63
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Cheryl Makarewicz
64, 65
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70, 71
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72
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72
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86
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50, 87
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Wolfgang Haak
50, 87, 89
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90
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91
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Michael Hofreiter
92
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ZUO-GANG PENG
93, 94
,
Alexander S Graphodatsky
3
,
Joris Peters
95, 96
,
Kirill Yu Kiryushin
10
,
Tumur Ochir Iderkhangai
60
,
Nikolay A Bokovenko
44
,
Sergey K Vasiliev
97
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Nikolai N Seregin
10
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Konstantin V Chugunov
98
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Natalya A Plasteeva
99
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Gennady F. Baryshnikov
100
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Ekaterina Petrova
101
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Mikhail V. Sablin
100
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Elina Ananyevskaya
101
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Andrey Logvin
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Irina Shevnina
102
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Victor Logvin
103
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Aleksandr I Yudin
103
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Valeriy Loman
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Igor Kukushkin
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Ilya Merz
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Victor Merz
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Sergazy Sakenov
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Emma Usmanova
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Alan K. Outram
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1
9
14
Museum Østjylland, Randers, Denmark
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16
ArScAn-UMR 7041, Equipe Ethnologie préhistorique, CNRS, MSH-Mondes, Nanterre Cedex, France
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Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Secteur des Vertébrés, Geneva, Switzerland
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19
Geneva Natural History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
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21
OD Earth & History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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25
Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, Tartu, Estonia
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Prague, Czechia
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Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Department of Bioarchaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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32
Institute of Archaeogenomics, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
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34
Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
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Ásatárs Ltd., Kecskemét, Hungary
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Rippl-Rónai Municipal Museum with Country Scope, Kaposvár, Hungary
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Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, USA
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Department of Prehistory and Western Asian/Northeast African Archaeology, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Semenov-Tyan-Shanskii Lipetsk State Pedagogical University, Lipetsk, Russia
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Musée d’Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
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58
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Chinggis Khaan Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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60
Department of Archaeology, Ulaanbaatar State University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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69
Valencia, Spain
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70
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Instituto de Arqueología (CSIC–Junta de Extremadura), Mérida, Spain
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75
Department of Eneolithic and Bronze Age, Institute of Archaeology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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77
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Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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96
SNSB, State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich, Germany
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Department of Eastern European and Siberian Archaeology, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
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103
Department of History and Archaeology, Surgut Governmental University, Surgut, Russia
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Nasledie Cultural Heritage Unit, Stavropol, Russia
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110
Research Center for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Saratov, Russia
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Archaeological School, Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, Cheboksary, Russia
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Anthropology Faculty, Hartwick College, NY, USA
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Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2021-10-20
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SJR: 18.288
CiteScore: 78.1
Impact factor: 48.5
ISSN: 00280836, 14764687
PubMed ID:
34671162
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Abstract
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare1. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling2–4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 bc3. Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia5 and Anatolia6, have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic, geographic and temporal origins of modern domestic horses have remained unknown. Here we pinpoint the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region, as the homeland of modern domestic horses. Furthermore, we map the population changes accompanying domestication from 273 ancient horse genomes. This reveals that modern domestic horses ultimately replaced almost all other local populations as they expanded rapidly across Eurasia from about 2000 bc, synchronously with equestrian material culture, including Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots. We find that equestrianism involved strong selection for critical locomotor and behavioural adaptations at the GSDMC and ZFPM1 genes. Our results reject the commonly held association7 between horseback riding and the massive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists into Europe around 3000 bc8,9 driving the spread of Indo-European languages10. This contrasts with the scenario in Asia where Indo-Iranian languages, chariots and horses spread together, following the early second millennium bc Sintashta culture11,12.
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@article{2021_Librado,
author = {Pablo Librado and NAVEED KHAN and Antoine Fages and Mariya A Kusliy and Tomasz Suchan and Laure Tonasso Calvière and Stéphanie Schiavinato and Duha Alioglu and Aurore Fromentier and Aude Perdereau and Jean-Marc Aury and Charleen Gaunitz and Lorelei Chauvey and Andaine Seguin-Orlando and Clio Der Sarkissian and John Southon and Beth Shapiro and Alexey A Tishkin and Alexey Kovalev and Saleh Alquraishi and Ahmed H. Alfarhan and K. A. S. Al-Rasheid and Timo Seregély and Lutz Klassen and Rune Iversen and Olivier Bignon-Lau and Pierre Bodu and Monique Olive and Jean-Christophe Castel and Myriam Boudadi Maligne and Nadir Alvarez and Mietje Germonpré and Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo and Jarosław Wilczyński and Sylwia Pospuła and Anna Lasota Kuś and Krzysztof Tunia and Marek Nowak and Eve Rannamäe and Urmas Saarma and Gennady Boeskorov and Lembi Lõugas and René Kyselý and Lubomír Peške and Adrian Bălășescu and Valentin Dumitrascu and Roxana Dobrescu and Daniel Gerber and Viktória Kiss and Anna Szécsényi-Nagy and others},
title = {The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2021},
volume = {598},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {oct},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9},
number = {7882},
pages = {634--640},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9}
}
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Librado, Pablo, et al. “The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes.” Nature, vol. 598, no. 7882, Oct. 2021, pp. 634-640. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9.