University of Tehran Press Progress in Biological Sciences 1016-1058 1 2 2011 10 01 Reconstruction of early Neolithic/Bronze Age population diversity in the Shamanka II cemetery at Lake Baikal using mtDNA polymorphism Reconstruction of early Neolithic/Bronze Age population diversity in the Shamanka II cemetery at Lake Baikal using mtDNA polymorphism 29 35 24287 10.22059/pbs.2011.24287 EN Hamed Vahdati Nasab PHD.TarbiatModares University Journal Article 1970 01 01 Mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA) polymorphisms were examinedin bone samples of individuals buried inan early Neolithic (c. 5800–4900 BCE) hunter-gatherer cemetery, Shamanka II, located atthe southwestern tip of Lake Baikal, Siberia. The mainobjective was to compare the mtDNA polymorphisms observed at Shamanka II to those previously reportedfrom the Lokomotiv (early Neolithic) and Ust'-Ida (Bronze Age) cemeteries in the same general region also known asthe Cis-Baikal. All three cemetery populations comprised remains containingmtDNAhaplogroupscharacterized as being of Asian origin (haplogroups A, C, D, F, G2a, and U5a). The results confirmed that haplogroup frequency distributions amongNeolithic populations in southern Siberiawere similar, and differed significantly fromhaplogroup frequency distributionsamongthe Bronze Agepopulations.? 2011 Progress in Biological Sciences. Vol. 1, No. 2, 29-35. https://pbiosci.ut.ac.ir/article_24287_77ea873d33bd533355846d667a263c3b.pdf