🧬 New Pre-Mongol Cuman–Kipchak Elite Woman sample (12th–13th Century CE) from the Lower Don, Russia

In PCA, the Cuman-Kipchak woman (Pol01) clusters with modern Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, and Astrakhan Nogais.

ADMIXTURE Results (Approximately):
(61% East Eurasian | 39% West Eurasian)

33% Han
28% Nganasan
19% ANF
17% EHG
3% WHG

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mtDNA haplogroup:
FTDNA: T1a5
YFull: T1a5

​Publication: Genomic analysis of an individual from a Polovtsian burial in the "Krasny IV" burial mound cemetery (Rostov region)
Sample ID: Pol01
Date: 12th–13th centuries CE
Location: Aksay district, Rostov region, Russia

Credit: Steppe Archive