Xinjiang is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent.
At the same time, the researchers used ancient proteomics technology to find evidence that the Xiaohe population had consumed a large amount of dairy products for a long time.
This research result has reshaped our understanding of the population evolution process in Xinjiang and Eurasian grasslands, and provided important genetic evidence for a more comprehensive and systematic restoration of the origin and evolutionary history of ancient humans.
Figure 1 A bird's-eye view of the Xiaohe cemetery in this study (provided by Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology); B the geographic location of the archaeological site where the samples were collected in this study; C the results of principal component analysis (PCA) of the genomic data of ancient individuals in this study ); D ADMIXTURE map of ancient Xinjiang individuals and other ancient Eurasian people (K=8); E The results of qpAdm analysis of ancient populations in the Eurasian Bronze Age and before the Bronze Age
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