HIGHLY RATED PUBLICATIONS BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM KARAGANDA UNIVERSITY

For thousands of years, the Eurasian steppes have been the most important center of people migrations and cultural transformations, playing a decisive role in the development of states from Siberia to Hindustan, from the Far East to Western Europe. Central Kazakhstan is one of the epicenters of cultural, economic and technological development. Over the past decade, the Saryarka Archaeological Institute at the Karaganda Research University named after E. A. Buketov has been actively cooperating with leading world institutes: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, (Germany); Geneticist from the Centre for Geogenetics and GLOBE Institute University of Copenhagen (Denmark). The archaeological resource obtained during many years of research at the Karaganda University is one of the most in-demand for joint work with research teams from Europe and the USA on the study of paleoDNA, isotope analysis, and radiocarbon dating. The results of joint international research projects have been published in the highly rated journals Nature, Cell and Science. The results of archaeological research by the institute's staff are also reflected in the print pages of such journals as: Radiocarbon, Archaeological Research in Asia, Journal of Field Archaeology, etc.In 2024, archaeologists from Karaganda University took part in an international project dedicated to ancient Holocene populations of Western Eurasia. The results of joint research are reflected in a highly rated publication: Population genomics of post-glacial Western Eurasia // Nature. – Vol. 625 (2024). – Pp. 301-311.Currently, the Saryarka Archaeological Institute is preparing a series of articles jointly with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany) on ancient pathogens: this is the genetic history of the emergence and development of epidemics, based on the analysis of materials from the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages of Central Eurasia. A scientific article on the domestication of dogs based on paleoDNA analysis has also been prepared, which will be published in a high-ranking foreign journal.