Sentence examples for eastern caucasus from inspiring English sources
Another vestige of the Khazar nation is the "Mountain Jews" in the North Eastern Caucasus (Koestler 1976).
By 1848 he had also brought two-thirds of Dagestan (a region in the eastern Caucasus) under Russian control.
In the first millennium, Albania was not only a Balkan country but also a realm in the eastern Caucasus.
Domestic sheep, cattle, and possibly goat, are reported from the eastern Caucasus in the first half of the 6th millennium BC (Kushnareva 1997).
Languages in East Asia tend to have tonal vowels, those of the north-eastern Caucasus are known for consonantal complexity: Ubykh has 78 consonant sounds.
The results of study of faunal materials unique for the north-eastern Caucasus are published, deriving from layer 80 of the Oldowan site of Muhkai II.
Again, the authors demonstrated that most of the haplogroup H lineages of present-day Near Eastern-Caucasus area expanded after the LGM and presumably before the Holocene.
Overall, our results portray the European Jewish genome as a mosaic of Near Eastern-Caucasus, Western European, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European ancestries in decreasing proportions.
Our findings support the Khazarian hypothesis and portray the European Jewish genome as a mosaic of Near Eastern-Caucasus, European, and Semitic ancestries, thereby consolidating previous contradictory reports of Jewish ancestry.
As the ancient Judeans and Khazars have been vanquished and their remains have yet to be sequenced, in accordance with previous studies (Levy-Coffman 2005; Kopelman et al. 2009; Atzmon et al. 2010; Behar et al. 2010), contemporary Middle Eastern and Caucasus populations were used as surrogates.
We have developed a robust approach to resequencing target regions in populations of interest using next-gen sequencing technology involving PCR enrichment and sample multiplexing, and applied it to an investigation of high-altitude adaptation in a little-studied area, Daghestan in the Eastern Great Caucasus.
