32 people from a burial ground in the southern Ural region show close kinship relations – only the women came from other areas. Scientists have long been captivated by the diversity of family structures in ancient civilizations. A pioneering research project led by anthropologists from Mainz, in co
32 people from a burial ground in the southern Ural region show close kinship relations – only the women came from other areas.
The kurgan investigated was the grave of six brothers, their wives, children, and grandchildren. The presumably oldest brother had eight children with two wives, one of whom came from the Asian steppe regions in the east. The other brothers showed no signs of polygamy and probably lived monogamously with far fewer children.
Accordingly, the Mainz population geneticists found that the genomic diversity of the prehistoric women was higher than that of the men. The women who married into the family thus came from a larger area and were not related to each other. In their new homeland, they followed their husbands into the grave. From this the authors conclude that in Nepluyevsky there was both “patrilineality,” i.e. the transmission of local traditions through the male line, and “patrilocality”, i.e.
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