State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, China.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2010 Jun;142(2):314-20. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21237.
As an area of contact between Asia and Europe, Central Asia witnessed a scenario of complex cultural developments, extensive migratory movements, and biological admixture between West and East Eurasians. However, the detanglement of this complexity of diversity requires an understanding of prehistoric contacts of the people from the West and the East on the Eurasia continent. We demonstrated the presence of genetic admixture of West and East in a population of 35 inhabitants excavated in Gavaerk in southern Xinjiang and dated 2,800-2,100 years before present by analyzing their mitochondrial DNA variations. This result indicates that the initial contact of the East and the West Eurasians occurred further east than Central Asia as early as 2,500 years ago.
作为亚洲和欧洲的接触地区，中亚见证了复杂的文化发展、广泛的迁徙运动以及东西方欧亚人的生物混合。然而，要理清这种多样性的复杂性，需要了解来自东西方的人们在欧亚大陆上的史前接触。我们通过分析在新疆南部的 Gavaerk 挖掘出的 35 名居民的线粒体 DNA 变异，证明了他们的遗传混合来自东西方。这一结果表明，早在 2500 年前，东西方欧亚人的最初接触就已经发生在中亚以东的地区。
