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Ancient DNA Reveals Distinct Bronze and Iron Age Ancestries in East Tianshan
Key Takeaways
- Science (Volume 393, Issue 6817, September 2026) publishes research titled 'Ancient DNA unveils distinctive ancestries in the Bronze and Iron Ages of East Tianshan.'
- The headline claim is that East Tianshan Bronze and Iron Age populations carried ancestry profiles that cannot be reduced to a single neighbouring source.
- The East Tianshan forms a mountain corridor linking the Tarim Basin, the northern steppe and the settled regions to the east.
- Ancient DNA offers direct biological evidence in a region with little contemporaneous written documentation.
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