Early pastoral economies along the Ancient Silk Road: Biomolecular evidence from the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan

• William Taylor ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: taylor@shh.mpg.de

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0836-7814

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• Svetlana Shnaider,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

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• Aida Abdykanova,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

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• Antoine Fages,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliations Laboratoire d’Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Frido Welker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Franziska Irmer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9887-4368

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• Andaine Seguin-Orlando,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Laboratoire d’Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Naveed Khan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6502-9774

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• Katerina Douka,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

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• Ksenia Kolobova,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Ludovic Orlando,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Laboratoire d’Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Andrei Krivoshapkin,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5327-3438

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• Nicole Boivin

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

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