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Caucasus hunter-gatherer (CHG), also called Satsurblia cluster,[1][2] is an anatomically modern human genetic lineage, first identified in a 2015 study,[3][1] based on the population genetics of several modern Western Eurasian (European, Caucasian and Near Eastern) populations.[4][5]
It represents an ancestry maximised in some Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer groups in the Caucasus. These groups are also very closely related to Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers and pastoralists in the Iranian Plateau (Iranian hunter-gatherer cluster), who are sometimes included within the CHG group.[6][7] Ancestry that is closely related to CHG-Iranian hunter gatherers and farmers is also known from further east, including from the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex and the Harappan/Indus Valley Civilisation.[8][9] Caucasus hunter-gatherers and Eastern hunter-gatherers are ancestral in roughly equal proportions to the Western Steppe Herders (WSH), who were widely spread across Europe and Asia beginning during the Chalcolithic.
It represents an ancestry maximised in some Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer groups in the Caucasus. These groups are also very closely related to Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers and pastoralists in the Iranian Plateau (Iranian hunter-gatherer cluster), who are sometimes included within the CHG group.[6][7] Ancestry that is closely related to CHG-Iranian hunter gatherers and farmers is also known from further east, including from the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex and the Harappan/Indus Valley Civilisation.[8][9] Caucasus hunter-gatherers and Eastern hunter-gatherers are ancestral in roughly equal proportions to the Western Steppe Herders (WSH), who were widely spread across Europe and Asia beginning during the Chalcolithic.



