A woman buried in Russia in the Early Bronze Age era

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A woman buried in Russia in the Early Bronze Age era

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RussiaEarly Bronze Age Kurma, Russia

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Record

Sample details

Recorded details and available lineage markers.

Individual

Proto-Indo-European individual, Russia

Sample ID: DA360

Date Range

2878 BCE - 2631 BCE

Cultural Period

Early Bronze Age Kurma, Russia

Biological Sex

Female

mtDNA Haplogroup

F1b

Y-DNA Haplogroup

Not available

Social Role

Pastoralist (AI estimate, era-typical)

Geography

Location

Where this individual was discovered

Country Russia
Locality Kurma XI
Coordinates 53.1792, 106.9628
Chronology

Date range

When this individual lived in the broader context of human history

Proto-Indo-European individual, Russia 2878 BCE - 2631 BCE
Context

Historical context

Background information associated with the reference record.

Region & Environment

The Kurma Early Bronze Age is situated in Russia’s Siberian context, where cold winters and seasonal resource availability shaped daily choices. Environments suitable for hunting and fishing—especially along river systems—supported repeated patterns of settlement and movement.

Historical Context

Between 3300 and 2500 BCE, Eurasian Bronze Age transformations were underway, including the broader spread of metal use and related craft traditions. In Siberia, these developments interacted with locally rooted subsistence systems and regional cultural trajectories.

Populations & Lifeways

Populations likely lived in small groups with seasonal lifeways. Hunting and the processing of animal products were central, with river corridors potentially providing travel routes and concentrated resources.

Bronze items, where present, would have been integrated into everyday life and exchange, but most subsistence work still depended on stone, bone/antler, wood, and other locally available materials.

Archaeology & Material Culture

Kurma cultural attributions are based on characteristic assemblages of stone tools and Bronze Age material patterns. Archaeological recovery typically emphasizes durable artifact categories such as metal objects (when found), along with associated toolkits that show continuity in functional tasks.

Because metal concentrations vary between sites, interpretations must remain cautious: the presence or absence of Bronze artifacts may reflect site use, preservation, and sampling rather than a uniform difference in culture.

Culture & Society

Cultural identity in the Early Bronze Age is expressed through shared artifact styles and technological routines. Such similarities imply communication or common technical traditions across groups, though the degree of political unification is not inferable from material culture alone.

Social organization is therefore best described at the level of practice: cooperation in subsistence, household production, and the maintenance of specialized knowledge needed for metalworking or metal-associated tasks.

Legacy & Transition

By the later Bronze Age, cultural horizons in Siberia continued to evolve, with shifts in artifact style, craft traditions, and interregional connectivity. The Kurma Early Bronze Age represents a stage in that longer process of transformation.

Analysis

Genetic comparisons

These comparisons show genetic similarity, not identity or origin. The populations listed are those whose genomes show statistical alignment to this ancient individual.

Similarity reflects shared history, not shared identity. These are analytical comparisons, not claims about who this person was.

Modern Genetic Admixture

This analysis compares the DNA profile with present-day reference populations, showing statistical similarity to modern reference populations from different regions. The excavation site records where this individual was found, not a fixed modern genetic identity.

Asia 92.7%
Northern Asian 67.3%
Siberian 56.9%
Mongolian 10.4%
Japanese & Korean 13.4%
Japanese 13.4%
Central Asian, Northern Indian & Pakistani 6.8%
Central Asian 6.8%
Chinese & Southeast Asian 5.1%
Chinese 5.1%
America 6.8%
America 6.8%
Native American 6.8%
Africa 0.6%
African Hunter-Gatherer 0.6%
African Hunter-Gatherer 0.6%

Closest Modern Populations

These are the modern populations showing the closest statistical alignment to A woman buried in Russia in the Early Bronze Age era, ranked by genetic distance. Lower distance values indicate closer statistical similarity. Cross-region similarity can reflect shared ancestry, population movement, continuity, or later admixture.

1
Khakass Kachins
7.0648
2
Mogush
7.7551
3
Altaian
8.1127
4
Altaian Kizhi
8.1734
5
Teleut O
8.3512
6
Tuvinian
8.4599
7
Khakass
8.5189
8
Teleut
9.0019
9
Buryat O
9.8650
10
Evenk O
9.9478
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Individual Culture/Period Date Location Action
Proto-Indo-European individual, Russia Early Bronze Age Kurma, Russia 2883 BCE Kurma XI, Russia View
Proto-Indo-European individual, Russia Early Bronze Age Kurma, Russia 2878 BCE Kurma XI, Russia View
Proto-Indo-European individual, Russia Early Bronze Age Kurma, Russia 2856 BCE Kurma XI, Russia View
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G25 Coordinates

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DA360,0.06115874,-0.28838362,0.09725918,0.01636592,-0.07517042,-0.036271,0.00608486,0.0118124,0.0098561,0.00152912,0.0255479,-0.00202138,0.00390868,-0.02035034,-0.0154099,-0.01535046,-0.00751728,0.00909802,0.01662782,0.0076545,0.01180514,-0.01299192,0.01135338,0.00318578,0.00650688
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