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@article{item_3348201,
title = {{The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies}},
author = {Zhang, Fan and Ning, Chao and Scott, Ashley and Fu, Qiaomei and Bjorn, Rasmus and Li, Wenying and Wei, Dong and Wang, Wenjun and Fan, Linyuan and Abuduresule, Idilisi and Hu, Xingjun and Ruan, Qiurong and Niyazi, Alipujiang and Dong, Guanghui and Cao, Peng and Liu, Feng and Dai, Qingyan and Feng, Xiaotian and Yang, Ruowei and Tang, Zihua and Ma, Pengcheng and Li, Chunxiang and Gao, Shizhu and Xu, Yang and Wu, Sihao and Wen, Shaoqing and Zhu, Hong and Zhou, Hui and Robbeets, Martine and Kumar, Vikas and Krause, Johannes and Warinner, Christina G. and Jeong, Choongwon and Cui, Yinqiu},
language = {eng},
issn = {0028-0836},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-021-04052-7},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
address = {London},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-11-11},
abstract = {{The identity of the earliest inhabitants of Xinjiang, in the heart of Inner Asia, and the languages that they spoke have long been debated and remain contentious1. Here we present genomic data from 5 individuals dating to around 3000{\textendash}2800 BC from the Dzungarian Basin and 13 individuals dating to around 2100{\textendash}1700 BC from the Tarim Basin, representing the earliest yet discovered human remains from North and South Xinjiang, respectively. We find that the Early Bronze Age Dzungarian individuals exhibit a predominantly Afanasievo ancestry with an additional local contribution, and the Early{\textendash}Middle Bronze Age Tarim individuals contain only a local ancestry. The Tarim individuals from the site of Xiaohe further exhibit strong evidence of milk proteins in their dental calculus, indicating a reliance on dairy pastoralism at the site since its founding. Our results do not support previous hypotheses for the origin of the Tarim mummies, who were argued to be Proto-Tocharian-speaking pastoralists descended from the Afanasievo1,2 or to have originated among the Bactria{\textendash}Margiana Archaeological Complex3 or Inner Asian Mountain Corridor cultures4. Instead, although Tocharian may have been plausibly introduced to the Dzungarian Basin by Afanasievo migrants during the Early Bronze Age, we find that the earliest Tarim Basin cultures appear to have arisen from a genetically isolated local population that adopted neighbouring pastoralist and agriculturalist practices, which allowed them to settle and thrive along the shifting riverine oases of the Taklamakan Desert.}},
journal = {{Nature}},
volume = {599},
number = {7884},
pages = {256--261},
}