The case of Chalcolithic fortresses in the Northwestern Caucasus (Kozintsev 2017)

It's a pity that we still don't have any decent ancient DNA data from the North Caucasus and nearby steppes, apart from, of course, those few intriguing mitochondrial genomes from Maykop burials (see here). This leaves us guessing about the genetic origins of the people who lived in this region across the millennia, and thus their genealogical relationships to near and far ancient and modern-day