by influx of people from the Tuva and north-western Mongolia, who brought a distinctive tradition of stone kurgans with fences (chereksurs), which resulted in a formation in the Central Asian steppes of a Slab Grave culture that became an eastern wing of a huge nomadic world in Eurasia, which produced in the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE a bright civilization known as Scythian-Siberian World. Related cultures Glazkov culture had clearly expressed variations, bringing about a number of hypotheses about ethno-cultural situation in the Baikal area, all of them concurring that all population groups are of the animal husbandry type. These cultures are Daur, Slab Grave Culture, and Palace Type burials, seen by some researchers as the earliest predecessor of the Slab Grave Culture Economy Hunting, fishery and gathering. Paleogenetics All 4 tested Early Bronze Age individuals from the Ust-Ida burial site belonged to the Y-DNA haplogroup Q-YP4004 under Q1a2. Two earlier Late Neolithic burials from the same area yielded Y-haplogroups Q1a2 and N1c1. References Glazkov culture (In Russian) Ancient history (In Russian) Debets G.F. "Paleoanthropology of the USSR", Moscow-Leningrad, 1948 (In Russian) Okladnikov A.P. "Neolith and the Bronze Age of Baikal", Part 3, Moscow-Leningrad, 1955 (In Russian) Gumilev L.N., "History of Hun People" (In Russian) See also History of China History of Kazakhstan History of Kyrgyzstan History of Mongolia History of Russia Archaeological cultures of Siberia History of Siberia Bronze Age cultures of Asia Archaeological cultures of Northern Europe Tungusic Archaeological cultures in Russia