Molecular Genetic Analysis of 400-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Two Yakut Burial Sites

• Published in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
• Main Authors: Ricaut, François-Xavier, Kolodesnikov, Sergei, Keyser-Tracqui, Christine, Alekseev, Anatoly Nikoyevich, Crubézy, Eric, Ludes, Bertrand
• Other Authors: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie (LA), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Médecine Légale - IML (Paris, France)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology; Myrane; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02112820; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20195

International audience The excavation of five frozen graves at the Sytygane Syhe and Istekh-Myrane burial sites (dated at 400 years old) in central Yakutia revealed five human skeletons belonging to the Yakut population. To investigate the origin and evolution of the Yakut population as well as the...