Farhod Maksudov

TL;DR: It is shown that Steppe ancestry then integrated further south in the first half of the second millennium BCE, contributing up to 30% of the ancestry of modern groups in South Asia, supporting the idea that the archaeologically documented dispersal of domesticates was accompanied by the spread of people from multiple centers of domestication.

TL;DR: The results show how ancestry from the Steppe genetically linked Europe and South Asia in the Bronze Age, and identifies the populations that almost certainly were responsible for spreading Indo-European languages across much of Eurasia.

TL;DR: These data indicate tightly bound social connectivity in urban centres pointedly funnelled local food products and homogenized dietary intake within settled communities, whereas open and opportunistic systems of food production and circulation were possible through more mobile lifeways.

TL;DR: Examining the spread of crops, notably arboreal crops, across Eurasia is examined and ties together several data sets in order to add to discussions of what plant cultivation looked like in the central region of the Silk Road.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of archaeological survey and excavations carried out in southeastern Uzbekistan during the summer of 2011 and argue that a well-developed local tradition of pastoralism was already in place during the early 2nd millennium b.c and endured until the early 20th century.