Open AccessModern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal
Author(s) -
Tatiana R. Feuerborn,
Alberto Carmagnini,
Robert J. Losey,
Tatiaomokonova,
Arthur Askeyev,
Igor V. Askeyev,
Oleg Askeyev,
Ekaterina Antipina,
Martin Appelt,
Olga P. Bachura,
Fiona Beglane,
Daniel G. Bradley,
Kevin G. Daly,
Shyam Gopalakrishnan,
Kristian Murphy Gregersen,
Chunxue Guo,
А. В. Гусев,
Carleton Jones,
П. А. Косинцев,
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin,
Valeria Mattiangeli,
Angela Perri,
Andreĭ V. Plekhanov,
Jazmín RamosMadrigal,
Anne Lisbeth Schmidt,
Dilyara N. Shaymuratova,
Oliver Smith,
Lilia V. Yavorskaya,
Guojie Zhang,
Eske Willerslev,
Morten Meldgaard,
M. Thomas P. Gilbert,
Greger Larson,
Love Dalén,
Anders J. Hansen,
Mikkel Holger S. Sinding,
Laurent Frantz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.2100338118
Subject(s) - steppe , biological dispersal , arctic , geography , period (music) , population , subsistence agriculture , beringia , archaeology , domestication , ancient dna , pastoralism , ecology , pleistocene , livestock , biology , demography , agriculture , physics , sociology , acoustics
Significance The Siberian Arctic has witnessed numerous societal changes since the first known appearance of dogs in the region ∼10,000 years ago. These changes include the introduction of ironworking ∼2,000 years ago and the emergence of reindeer pastoralism ∼800 years ago. The analysis of 49 ancient dog genomes reveals that the ancestry of Arctic Siberia dogs shifted over the last 2,000 years due to an influx of dogs from the Eurasian Steppe and Europe. Combined with genomic data from humans and archaeological evidence, our results suggest that though the ancestry of human populations in Arctic Siberia did not change over this period, people there participated in trade with distant communities that involved both dogs and material culture.