Table 3. Frequency of West and East Eurasian haplogroups in ancient Eurasian populations prior to Iron Age and from the Iron Age.
% Haplogroups | |||||||||||
Period | Geographic zone | Number of samples | West Eurasian | East Eurasian | References | ||||||
Bronze Age | Mongolia (Altai) | 3 | 0 | 100 | Present study | ||||||
Neolithic and Bronze Age | Gorny Altai | 4 | 100 | 0 | [3] | ||||||
Bronze Age | Kazakhstan | 13 | 100 | 0 | [7] | ||||||
West | 3 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||
Central | 1 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||
South | 2 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||
East# | 7 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||
Bronze Age | SW Siberia | 11 | 90.9 | 9.1 | [4] | ||||||
Iron Age, Pazyryk | Altai Mongolia | 19 | 57.9 | 42.1 | Present study; [2] | ||||||
Iron Age, Pazyryk | Republic of Altai/Gorny Altai | 10 | 40 | 60 | [3], [5], [6] | ||||||
Iron Age | Kazakhstan | 13 | 53.8 | 46.2 | [7] | ||||||
West | 3 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||
Central | 8 | 37.5 | 62.5* | ||||||||
South | 2 | 50 | 50* | ||||||||
Iron Age | SW Siberia | 15 | 66.7 | 33.3 | [4] | ||||||
Late Iron Age | Mongolia (Egyin Gol) | 46 | 10.9 | 89.1* | [1] |
#includes 5 samples Bronze/Iron Age (8th to 7th BC).
Included one probable South Asia (Indian) lineage.