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As previously reported on AncientPages.com, ancient DNA

recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7500
years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic
history of modern Europe. A study conducted by an international
team of researchers at the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre
for Ancient DNA (ACAD), and their colleagues from the University of
Mainz, Germany, and the National Geographic Society's Genographic
Project, reveals a dramatic series of events including major
migrations from both Western Europe and Eurasia, and signs of an
unexplained genetic turnover about 4000-5000 years ago.

Now, researchers report they have recovered DNA from two men
buried 5,000 years ago in barrow burial mounds in Serbia. DNA
analysis is currently conducted by scientists and the results may
solve the enigmatic mystery of genetic changes in Europe.

The DNA was retrieved from two 1.8 meters tall (5.9 feet) men who
were robustly built. They were much taller than the local population
who were much smaller in stature, about 1.6 m. (5.2 feet), said Dr.
Piotr Wlodarczak from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of
the Polish Academy of Sciences, who led the excavations in which the
two men were discovered in digs.

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“These big men and their burial customs are known to have come
from the dry grassy plains of the steppes in what is now southern
Russia and eastern Ukraine. Many of these barrow burial mounds
belonging to the nomadic Yamnaya people can be found in these
areas,” the Jerusalem Post reports.

Neolithic village. Credit: Biswarup Ganguly - CC BY 3.0

About 5,300 years ago, the local hunter-gatherer cultures were

replaced in many places by nomadic herders, dubbed the Yamnaya,
who were able to expand rapidly by exploiting horses and the new
invention of the cart, and who left behind big, rich burial sites.

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from the ancient DNA was that the people moved, too – all the way to
the Atlantic coast of Europe in the west to Mongolia in the east and
India in the south. This vast migration helps explain the spread of
Indo-European languages. And it significantly replaced the local
hunter-gatherer genes across Europe with the indelible stamp of
steppe DNA, as happened in Britain with the migration of the Bell
Beaker people to the island.

As reported earlier, scientists have previously discovered ancient

DNA reveals surprising stories about migrations and the genetic
mixing of our ancestors.

Dr. Piotr Wlodarczak explained the two skeletons he and his team
unearthed in the Vojvodina district in Serbia on the lower Tisza River,
at the very western edge of the Eurasian steppe differed from the
rest of the local population.

“There was a big physical difference between these people and the
people who settled Europe in the Neolithic times,” Wlodarczak told
The Jerusalem Post.

“There was a migration related to the steppe territories from

nomads, mostly cattle herders. Such people generally created a
military social system, like the Tatars.”

The barrow burial mounds, also known as kurgans, were constructed

by the nomadic peoples of the steppes using mounds of earth and
stones that were raised over a grave and included a burial chamber
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to the expansion into Europe of the first Indo-European tribes,
Wlodarczak said.

The two ancient skeletons were covered in red dye made of ochre, a
natural clay earth pigment. Most likely the red dye played an
important part in the burial rituals of the people and possibly helped
with the mummification process.

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As the Jerusalem Post reports, the “DNA material being analyzed at

Reich’s labs may provide important new genetic clues and
confirmation about the westward migration pattern of the nomadic,
horse-riding, cattle-herding people from the steppes and their
connection with the agricultural people of Central Europe, including
the Corded Ware culture, an important early European community,
he said.

“This expansion of steppe tribes is an important event in European

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