Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan

TL;DR: This extensive dataset allows us to assess the modern legacy of past equestrian civilizations and finds that two extinct horse lineages existed during early domestication, and the development of modern breeding impacted genetic diversity more dramatically than the previous millennia of human management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report genome-wide data from 166 East Asian individuals dating to between 6000 and 1000 BC and 46 present-day groups, showing that hunter-gatherers from Japan, the Amur River Basin, and people of Neolithic and Iron Age Taiwan and the Tibetan Plateau are linked by a deeply splitting lineage that probably reflects a coastal migration during the Late Pleistocene epoch.

TL;DR: The use of collagen mass fingerprinting and ancient DNA analysis of some of the first stratified and directly dated archaeofaunal assemblages from Mongolia’s early pastoral cultures to undertake species identifications supports models for widespread changes in herding ecology linked to the innovation of horseback riding in Central Asia in the final 2nd millennium BCE.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Bayesian chronological model for the initiation of domestic horse sacrifice at Deer Stone-Khirigsuur (DSK) culture sites in Mongolia and reveal the rapid spread of horse ritual over a large portion of the Eastern Steppe circa 1200 BCE.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that ossicles perform comparably to the cochlea in terms of DNA recovery, finding no substantial reduction in data quantity and minimal differences in data quality across preservation conditions.