High mitochondrial diversity of domesticated goats persisted among Bronze and Iron Age pastoralists in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor

• Taylor R. Hermes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hermes@shh.mpg.de (TRH); c.makaewicz@ufg.uni-kiel.de (CAM)

  Current address: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  Affiliations Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8377-468X

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• Michael D. Frachetti,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Dmitriy Voyakin,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Archaeological Expertise, LLC, Almaty, Kazakhstan, International Institute for Central Asian Studies, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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• Antonina S. Yerlomaeva,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Arman Z. Beisenov,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Paula N. Doumani Dupuy,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

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• Dmitry V. Papin,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology of Western Siberia and Altai, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2010-9092

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• Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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• Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Museum of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9536-3856

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• Jean-Luc Houle,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Alexey A. Tishkin,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

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• Almut Nebel,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

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• Ben Krause-Kyora,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

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• Cheryl A. Makarewicz

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hermes@shh.mpg.de (TRH); c.makaewicz@ufg.uni-kiel.de (CAM)

  Affiliations Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1649-336X

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