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Valdiosera C, Günther T, Vera-Rodríguez JC, Ureña I, Iriarte E, Rodríguez-Varela R, Simões LG, Martínez-Sánchez RM, Svensson EM, Malmström H, Rodríguez L, Bermúdez de Castro JM, Carbonell E, Alday A, Hernández Vera JA, Götherström A, Carretero JM, Arsuaga JL, Smith CI, Jakobsson M. Four millennia of Iberian biomolecular prehistory illustrate the impact of prehistoric migrations at the far end of Eurasia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:3428-3433. [PMID: 29531053 PMCID: PMC5879675 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717762115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Population genomic studies of ancient human remains have shown how modern-day European population structure has been shaped by a number of prehistoric migrations. The Neolithization of Europe has been associated with large-scale migrations from Anatolia, which was followed by migrations of herders from the Pontic steppe at the onset of the Bronze Age. Southwestern Europe was one of the last parts of the continent reached by these migrations, and modern-day populations from this region show intriguing similarities to the initial Neolithic migrants. Partly due to climatic conditions that are unfavorable for DNA preservation, regional studies on the Mediterranean remain challenging. Here, we present genome-wide sequence data from 13 individuals combined with stable isotope analysis from the north and south of Iberia covering a four-millennial temporal transect (7,500-3,500 BP). Early Iberian farmers and Early Central European farmers exhibit significant genetic differences, suggesting two independent fronts of the Neolithic expansion. The first Neolithic migrants that arrived in Iberia had low levels of genetic diversity, potentially reflecting a small number of individuals; this diversity gradually increased over time from mixing with local hunter-gatherers and potential population expansion. The impact of post-Neolithic migrations on Iberia was much smaller than for the rest of the continent, showing little external influence from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Paleodietary reconstruction shows that these populations have a remarkable degree of dietary homogeneity across space and time, suggesting a strong reliance on terrestrial food resources despite changing culture and genetic make-up.
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- Cristina Valdiosera
- Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia;
- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden;
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- Centro de Investigación en Patrimonio Histórico, Cultural y Natural, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Antropología, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Evolución Humana, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Comunicación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
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- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Laboratorio de Evolución Humana, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Comunicación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
- Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Isabel I, 09003 Burgos, Spain
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- Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco, 48940 Lejona, Vizcaya, Spain
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- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Laboratorio de Evolución Humana, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Comunicación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
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- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, 28029 Madrid, Spain;
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- Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden;
- Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
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Olalde I, Brace S, Allentoft ME, Armit I, Kristiansen K, Booth T, Rohland N, Mallick S, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Mittnik A, Altena E, Lipson M, Lazaridis I, Harper TK, Patterson N, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Diekmann Y, Faltyskova Z, Fernandes D, Ferry M, Harney E, de Knijff P, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Stewardson K, Barclay A, Alt KW, Liesau C, Ríos P, Blasco C, Miguel JV, García RM, Fernández AA, Bánffy E, Bernabò-Brea M, Billoin D, Bonsall C, Bonsall L, Allen T, Büster L, Carver S, Navarro LC, Craig OE, Cook GT, Cunliffe B, Denaire A, Dinwiddy KE, Dodwell N, Ernée M, Evans C, Kuchařík M, Farré JF, Fowler C, Gazenbeek M, Pena RG, Haber-Uriarte M, Haduch E, Hey G, Jowett N, Knowles T, Massy K, Pfrengle S, Lefranc P, Lemercier O, Lefebvre A, Martínez CH, Olmo VG, Ramírez AB, Maurandi JL, Majó T, McKinley JI, McSweeney K, Mende BG, Modi A, Kulcsár G, Kiss V, Czene A, Patay R, Endrődi A, Köhler K, Hajdu T, Szeniczey T, Dani J, Bernert Z, Hoole M, Cheronet O, Keating D, Velemínský P, Dobeš M, Candilio F, Brown F, Fernández RF, Herrero-Corral AM, Tusa S, Carnieri E, Lentini L, Valenti A, Zanini A, Waddington C, Delibes G, Guerra-Doce E, Neil B, Brittain M, Luke M, Mortimer R, Desideri J, Besse M, Brücken G, Furmanek M, Hałuszko A, Mackiewicz M, Rapiński A, Leach S, Soriano I, Lillios KT, Cardoso JL, Pearson MP, Włodarczak P, Price TD, Prieto P, Rey PJ, Risch R, Rojo Guerra MA, Schmitt A, Serralongue J, Silva AM, Smrčka V, Vergnaud L, Zilhão J, Caramelli D, Higham T, Thomas MG, Kennett DJ, Fokkens H, Heyd V, Sheridan A, Sjögren KG, Stockhammer PW, Krause J, Pinhasi R, Haak W, Barnes I, Lalueza-Fox C, Reich D. The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. Nature 2018; 555:190-196. [PMID: 29466337 PMCID: PMC5973796 DOI: 10.1038/nature25738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled its expansion are a matter of long-standing debate, and there is support for both cultural diffusion and migration having a role in this process. Here we present genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 226 individuals associated with Beaker-complex artefacts. We detected limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and thus exclude migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, migration had a key role in the further dissemination of the Beaker complex. We document this phenomenon most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker complex introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry and was associated with the replacement of approximately 90% of Britain's gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe over the previous centuries.
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- Iñigo Olalde
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1097, Hungary
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72070, Germany
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
- Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria
- Research Center for Anthropology and Health, Department of Life Science, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3000-456, Portugal
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Center of Natural and Cultural History of Man, Danube Private University, Krems 3500, Austria
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Basel University, Basel 4123, Switzerland
- Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1097, Hungary
- Romano-Germanic Commission, German Archaeological Institute, Frankfurt am Main 60325, Germany
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- INRAP, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Buffard 25440, France
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Oxford Archaeology, Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
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- School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UU, UK
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- School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK
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- Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2PG, UK
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- Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 118 01, Czech Republic
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- Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0DT, UK
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- Museu i Poblat Ibèric de Ca n'Oliver, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08290, Spain
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- School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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- INRAP, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Nice 06300, France
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- Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków 31-007, Poland
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- Oxford Archaeology, Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
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- Great Orme Mines, Great Orme, Llandudno LL30 2XG, UK
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- Bristol Radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UU, UK
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- Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80539, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72070, Germany
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- INRAP, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Strasbourg 67100, France
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- Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3, UMR 5140 ASM, Montpellier 34199, France
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- INRAP, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Metz 57063, France
- UMR 5199, Pacea, équipe A3P, Université de Bordeaux, Talence 33400, France
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- TRÉBEDE, Patrimonio y Cultura SL, Torres de la Alameda 28813, Spain
- Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares 28801, Spain
- Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Policiales (IUICP), Alcalá de Henares 28801, Spain
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- Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares 28801, Spain
- Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Policiales (IUICP), Alcalá de Henares 28801, Spain
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- Archaeom, Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1097, Hungary
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence 50121, Italy
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- Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1097, Hungary
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- Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1097, Hungary
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- Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre 2100, Hungary
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- Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1097, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 1117, Hungary
- Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest 1083, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 1117, Hungary
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- Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest 1083, Hungary
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- Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh EH9 1SH, UK
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
- Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria
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- Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Anthropology, National Museum, Prague 115 79, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 118 01, Czech Republic
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- Soprintendenza Archeologia belle arti e paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Cagliari e per le province di Oristano e Sud Sardegna, Cagliari 9124, Italy
- Physical Anthropology Section, University of Philadelphia Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00185, Italy
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- Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Palermo, Palermo 90133, Italy
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- Soprintendenza per i beni culturali e ambientali di Trapani, Trapani 91100, Italy
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- Departamento de Prehistoria, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid 47011, Spain
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- Departamento de Prehistoria, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid 47011, Spain
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- Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0DT, UK
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- Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0DT, UK
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- Albion Archaeology, Bedford MK42 0AS, UK
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- Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology, Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology, Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- General Department of Cultural Heritage Rhineland Palatinate, Department of Archaeology, Mainz 55116, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, Wrocław 50-137, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, Wrocław 50-137, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, Wrocław 50-137, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology, Silesian University in Opava, Opava 746 01, Czech Republic
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
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- Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240, USA
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- Centro de Arqueologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa 1600-214, Portugal
- Universidade Aberta, Lisboa 1269-001, Portugal
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków 31-016, Poland
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- Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15782, Spain
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- UMR 5204 Laboratoire Edytem, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry 73376, France
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- Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
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- Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Valladolid University, Valladolid 47011, Spain
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- UMR 7268 ADES, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Univ, EFS, Faculté de médecine Nord, Marseille 13015, France
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- Service archéologique, Conseil Général de la Haute-Savoie, Annecy 74000, France
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- Laboratory of Prehistory, Research Center for Anthropology and Health, Department of Life Science, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3000-456, Portugal
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- Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague 121 08, Czech Republic
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- ANTEA Bureau d'étude en Archéologie, Habsheim 68440, France
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- Centro de Arqueologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa 1600-214, Portugal
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona 08010, Spain
- Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08001, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence 50121, Italy
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- Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, RLAHA, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Anthropology & Institute for Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UU, UK
- Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, Section of Archaeology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80539, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
- Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany
- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Loreille O, Ratnayake S, Bazinet AL, Stockwell TB, Sommer DD, Rohland N, Mallick S, Johnson PLF, Skoglund P, Onorato AJ, Bergman NH, Reich D, Irwin JA. Biological Sexing of a 4000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Head to Assess the Potential of Nuclear DNA Recovery from the Most Damaged and Limited Forensic Specimens. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9030135. [PMID: 29494531 PMCID: PMC5867856 DOI: 10.3390/genes9030135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Revised: 02/06/2018] [Accepted: 02/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
High throughput sequencing (HTS) has been used for a number of years in the field of paleogenomics to facilitate the recovery of small DNA fragments from ancient specimens. Recently, these techniques have also been applied in forensics, where they have been used for the recovery of mitochondrial DNA sequences from samples where traditional PCR-based assays fail because of the very short length of endogenous DNA molecules. Here, we describe the biological sexing of a ~4000-year-old Egyptian mummy using shotgun sequencing and two established methods of biological sex determination (RX and RY), by way of mitochondrial genome analysis as a means of sequence data authentication. This particular case of historical interest increases the potential utility of HTS techniques for forensic purposes by demonstrating that data from the more discriminatory nuclear genome can be recovered from the most damaged specimens, even in cases where mitochondrial DNA cannot be recovered with current PCR-based forensic technologies. Although additional work remains to be done before nuclear DNA recovered via these methods can be used routinely in operational casework for individual identification purposes, these results indicate substantial promise for the retrieval of probative individually identifying DNA data from the most limited and degraded forensic specimens.
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- Odile Loreille
- DNA Support Unit, FBI Laboratory, 2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico, VA 22135, USA.
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- National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, 8300 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA.
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- National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, 8300 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA.
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- National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, 8300 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA.
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- National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, 8300 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA.
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- Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, 1210 Biology-Psychology Building, 4094 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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- The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Rd, London NW1 1AT, UK.
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- DNA Support Unit, FBI Laboratory, 2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico, VA 22135, USA.
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- National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, 8300 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA.
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- Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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- DNA Support Unit, FBI Laboratory, 2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico, VA 22135, USA.
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Mathieson I, Alpaslan-Roodenberg S, Posth C, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Rohland N, Mallick S, Olalde I, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Candilio F, Cheronet O, Fernandes D, Ferry M, Gamarra B, Fortes GG, Haak W, Harney E, Jones E, Keating D, Krause-Kyora B, Kucukkalipci I, Michel M, Mittnik A, Nägele K, Novak M, Oppenheimer J, Patterson N, Pfrengle S, Sirak K, Stewardson K, Vai S, Alexandrov S, Alt KW, Andreescu R, Antonović D, Ash A, Atanassova N, Bacvarov K, Gusztáv MB, Bocherens H, Bolus M, Boroneanţ A, Boyadzhiev Y, Budnik A, Burmaz J, Chohadzhiev S, Conard NJ, Cottiaux R, Čuka M, Cupillard C, Drucker DG, Elenski N, Francken M, Galabova B, Ganetsovski G, Gély B, Hajdu T, Handzhyiska V, Harvati K, Higham T, Iliev S, Janković I, Karavanić I, Kennett DJ, Komšo D, Kozak A, Labuda D, Lari M, Lazar C, Leppek M, Leshtakov K, Vetro DL, Los D, Lozanov I, Malina M, Martini F, McSweeney K, Meller H, Menđušić M, Mirea P, Moiseyev V, Petrova V, Price TD, Simalcsik A, Sineo L, Šlaus M, Slavchev V, Stanev P, Starović A, Szeniczey T, Talamo S, Teschler-Nicola M, Thevenet C, Valchev I, Valentin F, Vasilyev S, Veljanovska F, Venelinova S, Veselovskaya E, Viola B, Virag C, Zaninović J, Zäuner S, Stockhammer PW, Catalano G, Krauß R, Caramelli D, Zariņa G, Gaydarska B, Lillie M, Nikitin AG, Potekhina I, Papathanasiou A, Borić D, Bonsall C, Krause J, Pinhasi R, Reich D. The genomic history of southeastern Europe. Nature 2018; 555:197-203. [PMID: 29466330 PMCID: PMC6091220 DOI: 10.1038/nature25778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 270] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-7th millennium BCE–associated with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the Southeast before spreading throughout Europe. To understand the dynamics of this process, we analyzed genome-wide ancient DNA data from 225 individuals who lived in southeastern Europe and surrounding regions between 12,000 and 500 BCE. We document a West-East cline of ancestry in indigenous hunter-gatherers and–in far-eastern Europe–early stages in the formation of Bronze Age Steppe ancestry. We show that the first farmers of northern and western Europe passed through southeastern Europe with limited hunter-gatherer admixture, but that some groups that remained mixed extensively, without the male-biased hunter-gatherer admixture that prevailed later in the North and West. Southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between East and West, with intermittent genetic contact with the Steppe up to 2000 years before the migrations that replaced much of northern Europe’s population.
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- Iain Mathieson
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1097 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.,CIAS, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44100, Italy
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA-5005 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Institute for Anthropological Research, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, 50122 Florence, Italy
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- National Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG-1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Danube Private University, A-3500 Krems, Austria.,Department of Biomedical Engineering and Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, CH-4123 Basel-Allschwil, Switzerland.,State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, 06114 Halle, Germany
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- National Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG-1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1097 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Geosciences, Biogeology, Universität Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.,Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- ROCEEH Research Center, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, 010667 Bucharest, Romania
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- National Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG-1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Human Biology Department, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
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- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.,Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Archaeological Museum of Istria, 52100 Pula, Croatia
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- Service Régional de l'Archéologie de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 25043 Besançon Cedex, France.,Laboratoire Chronoenvironnement, UMR 6249 du CNRS, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Regional Museum of History Veliko Tarnovo, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- DRAC Auvergne - Rhône Alpes, Ministère de la Culture, Lyon Cedex 01, France
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- Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Biology, Department of Biological Anthropology, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Archaeology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- Institute for Anthropological Research, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.,Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA.,Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Anthropology and Institutes for Energy and the Environment, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Archaeological Museum of Istria, 52100 Pula, Croatia
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- Department of Bioarchaeology, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04210 Kiev, Ukraine
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- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Pediatric Department, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, 50122 Florence, Italy
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- National History Museum of Romania, 030026, Bucharest, Romania.,Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and History of Art, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, 50107 Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80799 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Dipartimento SAGAS - Sezione di Archeologia e Antico Oriente, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50122 Florence, Italy.,Museo e Istituto fiorentino di Preistoria, 50122 Florence, Italy
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- KADUCEJ d.o.o., 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Department of Archaeology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- ROCEEH Research Center, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Dipartimento SAGAS - Sezione di Archeologia e Antico Oriente, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50122 Florence, Italy.,Museo e Istituto fiorentino di Preistoria, 50122 Florence, Italy
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, 06114 Halle, Germany
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- Conservation Department in Šibenik, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, 22000 Šibenik, Croatia
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- Teleorman County Museum, 140033 Alexandria, Romania
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- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Archaeology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Olga Necrasov Centre for Anthropological Research, Romanian Academy - Iaşi Branch, 700481 Iaşi, Romania
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e tecnologie biologiche, chimiche e farmaceutiche, Lab. of Anthropology, Università degli studi di Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy
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- Anthropological Center, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Regional Museum of History Veliko Tarnovo, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
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- Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Biology, Department of Biological Anthropology, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.,Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Archaeology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Archaeological Museum of Macedonia, 1000 Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
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- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S2, Canada.,Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Satu Mare County Museum Archaeology Department, 440026 Satu Mare, Romania
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- anthropol - Anthropologieservice, 72379 Hechingen, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80799 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e tecnologie biologiche, chimiche e farmaceutiche, Lab. of Anthropology, Università degli studi di Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy
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- Institute for Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, 50122 Florence, Italy
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- Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia, Rı¯ga 1050, Latvia
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- School of Environmental Sciences, Geography, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
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- Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan 49401, USA
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- Department of Bioarchaeology, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04210 Kiev, Ukraine
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- The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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Pereira JB, Costa MD, Vieira D, Pala M, Bamford L, Harich N, Cherni L, Alshamali F, Hatina J, Rychkov S, Stefanescu G, King T, Torroni A, Soares P, Pereira L, Richards MB. Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 284:rspb.2016.1976. [PMID: 28330913 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2016] [Accepted: 02/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA. It seems clear that farming was introduced into central, northern, and eastern Europe from the south by pioneer colonization. It is often argued that these dispersals originated in the Near East, where the potential source genetic pool resembles that of the early European farmers, but clear ancient DNA evidence from Mediterranean Europe is lacking, and there are suggestions that Mediterranean Europe may have resembled the Near East more than the rest of Europe in the Mesolithic. Here, we test this proposal by dating mitogenome founder lineages from the Near East in different regions of Europe. We find that whereas the lineages date mainly to the Neolithic in central Europe and Iberia, they largely date to the Late Glacial period in central/eastern Mediterranean Europe. This supports a scenario in which the genetic pool of Mediterranean Europe was partly a result of Late Glacial expansions from a Near Eastern refuge, and that this formed an important source pool for subsequent Neolithic expansions into the rest of Europe.
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- Joana B Pereira
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.,Instituto de Investigacão e Inovacão em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal.,Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto 4200-465, Portugal
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.,Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto 4200-465, Portugal.,Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.,ICVS/3Bs-PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropogenetique, Department de Biologie, Universite Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida 24000, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Immunology and Human Pathology, Faculté de Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis 2092, Tunisia.,Tunis and High Institute of Biotechnology, University of Monastir, 5000 Monastir, Tunisia
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- General Department of Forensic Sciences and Criminology, Dubai Police General Headquarters, Dubai 1493, United Arab Emirates
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- Medical Faculty in Pilsen, Institute of Biology, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Adrian Building, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie 'L. Spallanzani', Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto 4200-465, Portugal.,Department of Biology, CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Instituto de Investigacão e Inovacão em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal.,Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto 4200-465, Portugal.,Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-319, Portugal
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK .,Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
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Hedenstierna‐Jonson C, Kjellström A, Zachrisson T, Krzewińska M, Sobrado V, Price N, Günther T, Jakobsson M, Götherström A, Storå J. A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2017; 164:853-860. [PMID: 28884802 PMCID: PMC5724682 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Revised: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 08/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES The objective of this study has been to confirm the sex and the affinity of an individual buried in a well-furnished warrior grave (Bj 581) in the Viking Age town of Birka, Sweden. Previously, based on the material and historical records, the male sex has been associated with the gender of the warrior and such was the case with Bj 581. An earlier osteological classification of the individual as female was considered controversial in a historical and archaeological context. A genomic confirmation of the biological sex of the individual was considered necessary to solve the issue. MATERIALS AND METHODS Genome-wide sequence data was generated in order to confirm the biological sex, to support skeletal integrity, and to investigate the genetic relationship of the individual to ancient individuals as well as modern-day groups. Additionally, a strontium isotope analysis was conducted to highlight the mobility of the individual. RESULTS The genomic results revealed the lack of a Y-chromosome and thus a female biological sex, and the mtDNA analyses support a single-individual origin of sampled elements. The genetic affinity is close to present-day North Europeans, and within Sweden to the southern and south-central region. Nevertheless, the Sr values are not conclusive as to whether she was of local or nonlocal origin. DISCUSSION The identification of a female Viking warrior provides a unique insight into the Viking society, social constructions, and exceptions to the norm in the Viking time-period. The results call for caution against generalizations regarding social orders in past societies.
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- Charlotte Hedenstierna‐Jonson
- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient HistoryUppsala University, Engelska Parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H751 26 UppsalaSweden
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
- Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
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- Department of Archaeology and Ancient HistoryUppsala University, Engelska Parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H751 26 UppsalaSweden
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- Department Organismal Biology and Sci Life LabEvolutionary Biology Centre, Norbyvägen 18 A752 36 UppsalaSweden
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- Department Organismal Biology and Sci Life LabEvolutionary Biology Centre, Norbyvägen 18 A752 36 UppsalaSweden
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
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- Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical StudiesStockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7106 91 StockholmSweden
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The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. Sci Rep 2017; 7:15644. [PMID: 29142317 PMCID: PMC5688114 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15480-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focus on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500–3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~ 3000–2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200–1500 BCE). We report ancient mitochondrial DNA results of 213 individuals (151 HVS-I sequences) from the northeast, central, southeast and southwest regions and thus on the largest archaeogenetic dataset from the Peninsula to date. Similar to other parts of Europe, we observe a discontinuity between hunter-gatherers and the first farmers of the Neolithic. During the subsequent periods, we detect regional continuity of Early Neolithic lineages across Iberia, however the genetic contribution of hunter-gatherers is generally higher than in other parts of Europe and varies regionally. In contrast to ancient DNA findings from Central Europe, we do not observe a major turnover in the mtDNA record of the Iberian Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, suggesting that the population history of the Iberian Peninsula is distinct in character.
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Marciniak S, Perry GH. Harnessing ancient genomes to study the history of human adaptation. Nat Rev Genet 2017; 18:659-674. [PMID: 28890534 DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2017.65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The past several years have witnessed an explosion of successful ancient human genome-sequencing projects, with genomic-scale ancient DNA data sets now available for more than 1,100 ancient human and archaic hominin (for example, Neandertal) individuals. Recent 'evolution in action' analyses have started using these data sets to identify and track the spatiotemporal trajectories of genetic variants associated with human adaptations to novel and changing environments, agricultural lifestyles, and introduced or co-evolving pathogens. Together with evidence of adaptive introgression of genetic variants from archaic hominins to humans and emerging ancient genome data sets for domesticated animals and plants, these studies provide novel insights into human evolution and the evolutionary consequences of human behaviour that go well beyond those that can be obtained from modern genomic data or the fossil and archaeological records alone.
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- Stephanie Marciniak
- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
- Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Rodríguez-Varela R, Günther T, Krzewińska M, Storå J, Gillingwater TH, MacCallum M, Arsuaga JL, Dobney K, Valdiosera C, Jakobsson M, Götherström A, Girdland-Flink L. Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans. Curr Biol 2017; 27:3396-3402.e5. [PMID: 29107554 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Revised: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 09/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The origins and genetic affinity of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands, commonly known as Guanches, are poorly understood. Though radiocarbon dates on archaeological remains such as charcoal, seeds, and domestic animal bones suggest that people have inhabited the islands since the 5th century BCE [1-3], it remains unclear how many times, and by whom, the islands were first settled [4, 5]. Previously published ancient DNA analyses of uniparental genetic markers have shown that the Guanches carried common North African Y chromosome markers (E-M81, E-M78, and J-M267) and mitochondrial lineages such as U6b, in addition to common Eurasian haplogroups [6-8]. These results are in agreement with some linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological data indicating an origin from a North African Berber-like population [1, 4, 9]. However, to date there are no published Guanche autosomal genomes to help elucidate and directly test this hypothesis. To resolve this, we generated the first genome-wide sequence data and mitochondrial genomes from eleven archaeological Guanche individuals originating from Gran Canaria and Tenerife. Five of the individuals (directly radiocarbon dated to a time transect spanning the 7th-11th centuries CE) yielded sufficient autosomal genome coverage (0.21× to 3.93×) for population genomic analysis. Our results show that the Guanches were genetically similar over time and that they display the greatest genetic affinity to extant Northwest Africans, strongly supporting the hypothesis of a Berber-like origin. We also estimate that the Guanches have contributed 16%-31% autosomal ancestry to modern Canary Islanders, here represented by two individuals from Gran Canaria.
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- Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela
- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humano, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Anatomy, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Anatomy, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humano, 28029 Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK; Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK; Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humano, 28029 Madrid, Spain; Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK.
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Harris EE. Demic and cultural diffusion in prehistoric Europe in the age of ancient genomes. Evol Anthropol 2017; 26:228-241. [PMID: 29027332 DOI: 10.1002/evan.21545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Ancient genomes can help us detect prehistoric migrations, population contractions, and admixture among populations. Knowing the dynamics of demography is invaluable for understanding culture change in prehistory, particularly the roles played by demic and cultural diffusion in transformations of material cultures. Prehistoric Europe is a region where ancient genome analyses can help illuminate the interplay between demography and culture change. In Europe, there is more archeological evidence, in terms of detailed studies, radiometric dates, and explanatory hypotheses that can be evaluated, than in any other region of the world. Here I show some important ways that ancient genomes have given us insights into population movements in European prehistory. I also propose that studies might be increasingly focused on specific questions of culture change, for example in evaluating the makers of "transitional" industries as well as the origins of the Gravettian and spread of the Magdalenian. I also discuss genomic evidence supporting the large role that demic expansion has played in the Neolithization of Europe and the formation of the European population during the Bronze Age.
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- Eugene E Harris
- Department of Biological Sciences and Geology, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, Medical Arts Building, M-213, 222-05, 56th Avenue Bayside, NY, 1136411364.,Affiliated Researcher, Center for the Study of Human Origins, New York University
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Olivieri A, Sidore C, Achilli A, Angius A, Posth C, Furtwängler A, Brandini S, Capodiferro MR, Gandini F, Zoledziewska M, Pitzalis M, Maschio A, Busonero F, Lai L, Skeates R, Gradoli MG, Beckett J, Marongiu M, Mazzarello V, Marongiu P, Rubino S, Rito T, Macaulay V, Semino O, Pala M, Abecasis GR, Schlessinger D, Conde-Sousa E, Soares P, Richards MB, Cucca F, Torroni A. Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past. Mol Biol Evol 2017; 34:1230-1239. [PMID: 28177087 PMCID: PMC5400395 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Sardinians are "outliers" in the European genetic landscape and, according to paleogenomic nuclear data, the closest to early European Neolithic farmers. To learn more about their genetic ancestry, we analyzed 3,491 modern and 21 ancient mitogenomes from Sardinia. We observed that 78.4% of modern mitogenomes cluster into 89 haplogroups that most likely arose in situ. For each Sardinian-specific haplogroup (SSH), we also identified the upstream node in the phylogeny, from which non-Sardinian mitogenomes radiate. This provided minimum and maximum time estimates for the presence of each SSH on the island. In agreement with demographic evidence, almost all SSHs coalesce in the post-Nuragic, Nuragic and Neolithic-Copper Age periods. For some rare SSHs, however, we could not dismiss the possibility that they might have been on the island prior to the Neolithic, a scenario that would be in agreement with archeological evidence of a Mesolithic occupation of Sardinia.
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- Anna Olivieri
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy.,Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.,Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy.,Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy.,Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), AGCT Program, Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico della Sardegna, Pula, Italy
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.,Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, Queensgate, United Kingdom
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy.,Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy.,Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences & ICVS/3B's-PT Government Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, Queensgate, United Kingdom
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging US National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, MD
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- CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
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- CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, Queensgate, United Kingdom
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy.,Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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Amplitude of travelling front as inferred from 14C predicts levels of genetic admixture among European early farmers. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11985. [PMID: 28931884 PMCID: PMC5607300 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12318-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Large radiocarbon datasets have been analysed statistically to identify, on the one hand, the dynamics and tempo of dispersal processes and, on the other, demographic change. This is particularly true for the spread of farming practices in Neolithic Europe. Here we combine the two approaches and apply them to a new, extensive dataset of 14,535 radiocarbon dates for the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods across the Near East and Europe. The results indicate three distinct demographic regimes: one observed in or around the centre of farming innovation and involving a boost in carrying capacity; a second appearing in regions where Mesolithic populations were well established; and a third corresponding to large-scale migrations into previously essentially unoccupied territories, where the travelling front is readily identified. This spatio-temporal patterning linking demographic change with dispersal dynamics, as displayed in the amplitude of the travelling front, correlates and predicts levels of genetic admixture among European early farmers.
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Lazaridis I, Mittnik A, Patterson N, Mallick S, Rohland N, Pfrengle S, Furtwängler A, Peltzer A, Posth C, Vasilakis A, McGeorge PJP, Konsolaki-Yannopoulou E, Korres G, Martlew H, Michalodimitrakis M, Özsait M, Özsait N, Papathanasiou A, Richards M, Roodenberg SA, Tzedakis Y, Arnott R, Fernandes DM, Hughey JR, Lotakis DM, Navas PA, Maniatis Y, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Stewardson K, Stockhammer P, Pinhasi R, Reich D, Krause J, Stamatoyannopoulos G. Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans. Nature 2017; 548:214-218. [PMID: 28783727 PMCID: PMC5565772 DOI: 10.1038/nature23310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2016] [Accepted: 06/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The origins of the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean cultures have puzzled archaeologists for more than a century. We assembled genome-wide data from nineteen ancient individuals, including Minoans from Crete, Mycenaeans from mainland Greece, and their eastern neighbours from southwestern Anatolia. We show that Minoans and Mycenaeans were genetically similar, having at least three quarters of their ancestry from the first Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and the Aegean1,2, and most of the remainder from ancient populations like those of the Caucasus3 and Iran4,5. However, the Mycenaeans differed from Minoans in deriving additional ancestry from an ultimate source related to the hunter-gatherers of eastern Europe and Siberia6–8, introduced via a proximal source related to either the inhabitants of either the Eurasian steppe1,6,9 or Armenia4,9. Modern Greeks resemble the Mycenaeans, but with some additional dilution of the early Neolithic ancestry. Our results support the idea of continuity but not isolation in the history of populations of the Aegean, before and after the time of its earliest civilizations.
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- Iosif Lazaridis
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Integrative Transcriptomics, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- 23rd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, 71202 Herakleion, Crete
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Athens, 17584 Athens, Greece
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- The Holley Martlew Archaeological Foundation, The Hellenic Archaeological Foundation, Tivoli House, Tivoli Road, Cheltenham GL50 2TD, UK
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- Erenköy, Bayar caddesi, Eser Apt. Number 7, Daire 24, Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Erenköy, Bayar caddesi, Eser Apt. Number 7, Daire 24, Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Ephorate of Paleoantropology and Speleology, Greek Ministry of Culture, 11636 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Hellenic Archaeological Service, Samara, 27, Paleo Psychico, 15452 Athens, Greece
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- Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HG, UK
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- School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.,CIAS, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3000-456, Portugal
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- Division of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Hartnell College, 411 Central Avenue, Salinas, California 93901, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Laboratory of Archaeometry, National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Aghia Paraskevi 153 10, Attiki, Greece
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.,Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.,Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Seattle, Washington 98121, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, 80799 München, Germany
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- School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.,Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Saag L, Varul L, Scheib CL, Stenderup J, Allentoft ME, Saag L, Pagani L, Reidla M, Tambets K, Metspalu E, Kriiska A, Willerslev E, Kivisild T, Metspalu M. Extensive Farming in Estonia Started through a Sex-Biased Migration from the Steppe. Curr Biol 2017; 27:2185-2193.e6. [PMID: 28712569 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Revised: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in Europe was brought upon by arrival of new people carrying novel material culture and genetic ancestry. The exact nature and scale of the transition-both material and genetic-varied in different parts of Europe [1-7]. Farming-based economies appear relatively late in Northeast Europe, and the extent to which they involve change in genetic ancestry is not fully understood due to the lack of relevant ancient DNA data. Here we present the results from new low-coverage whole-genome shotgun sequence data from five hunter-gatherers and five first farmers of Estonia whose remains date to 4,500 to 6,300 years before present. We find evidence of significant differences between the two groups in the composition of autosomal as well as mtDNA, X chromosome, and Y chromosome ancestries. We find that Estonian hunter-gatherers of Comb Ceramic culture are closest to Eastern hunter-gatherers, which is in contrast to earlier hunter-gatherers from the Baltics, who are close to Western hunter-gatherers [8, 9]. The Estonian first farmers of Corded Ware culture show high similarity in their autosomes with European hunter-gatherers, Steppe Eneolithic and Bronze Age populations, and European Late Neolithic/Bronze Age populations, while their X chromosomes are in addition equally closely related to European and Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. These findings suggest that the shift to intensive cultivation and animal husbandry in Estonia was triggered by the arrival of new people with predominantly Steppe ancestry but whose ancestors had undergone sex-specific admixture with early farmers with Anatolian ancestry.
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- Lehti Saag
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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- School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn 10120, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
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Beau A, Rivollat M, Réveillas H, Pemonge MH, Mendisco F, Thomas Y, Lefranc P, Deguilloux MF. Multi-scale ancient DNA analyses confirm the western origin of Michelsberg farmers and document probable practices of human sacrifice. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0179742. [PMID: 28678860 PMCID: PMC5497962 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2017] [Accepted: 06/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In Europe, the Middle Neolithic is characterized by an important diversification of cultures. In northeastern France, the appearance of the Michelsberg culture has been correlated with major cultural changes and interpreted as the result of the settlement of new groups originating from the Paris Basin. This cultural transition has been accompanied by the expansion of particular funerary practices involving inhumations within circular pits and individuals in “non-conventional” positions (deposited in the pits without any particular treatment). If the status of such individuals has been highly debated, the sacrifice hypothesis has been retained for the site of Gougenheim (Alsace). At the regional level, the analysis of the Gougenheim mitochondrial gene pool (SNPs and HVR-I sequence analyses) permitted us to highlight a major genetic break associated with the emergence of the Michelsberg in the region. This genetic discontinuity appeared to be linked to new affinities with farmers from the Paris Basin, correlated to a noticeable hunter-gatherer legacy. All of the evidence gathered supports (i) the occidental origin of the Michelsberg groups and (ii) the potential implication of this migration in the progression of the hunter-gatherer legacy from the Paris Basin to Alsace / Western Germany at the beginning of the Late Neolithic. At the local level, we noted some differences in the maternal gene pool of individuals in "conventional" vs. "non-conventional" positions. The relative genetic isolation of these sub-groups nicely echoes both their social distinction and the hypothesis of sacrifices retained for the site. Our investigation demonstrates that a multi-scale aDNA study of ancient communities offers a unique opportunity to disentangle the complex relationships between cultural and biological evolution.
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- Alice Beau
- De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel, Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie—UMR 5199, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS, Pessac cedex, France
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- De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel, Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie—UMR 5199, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS, Pessac cedex, France
- * E-mail: (MR); (PL)
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- De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel, Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie—UMR 5199, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS, Pessac cedex, France
- Centre d’Archéologie Préventive de Bordeaux Métropole, Direction des Bâtiments et Moyens, Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle, Bordeaux cedex, France
- Institut National de Recherche en Archéologie Préventive, Centre Archéologique de Strasbourg, 10 rue d’Altkirch, Strasbourg, France
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- De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel, Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie—UMR 5199, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS, Pessac cedex, France
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- De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel, Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie—UMR 5199, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS, Pessac cedex, France
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- Institut National de Recherche en Archéologie Préventive, Centre Archéologique de Strasbourg, 10 rue d’Altkirch, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut National de Recherche en Archéologie Préventive, Centre Archéologique de Strasbourg, 10 rue d’Altkirch, Strasbourg, France
- Archéologie et Histoire Ancienne: Méditerranée/Europe–UMR 7044, Université de Strasbourg, Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme d’Alsace, 5 Allée du Général Rouvillois, CS, Strasbourg cedex, France
- * E-mail: (MR); (PL)
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- De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel, Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie—UMR 5199, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS, Pessac cedex, France
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Ancient and recent admixture layers in Sicily and Southern Italy trace multiple migration routes along the Mediterranean. Sci Rep 2017; 7:1984. [PMID: 28512355 PMCID: PMC5434004 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01802-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Accepted: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The Mediterranean shores stretching between Sicily, Southern Italy and the Southern Balkans witnessed a long series of migration processes and cultural exchanges. Accordingly, present-day population diversity is composed by multiple genetic layers, which make the deciphering of different ancestral and historical contributes particularly challenging. We address this issue by genotyping 511 samples from 23 populations of Sicily, Southern Italy, Greece and Albania with the Illumina GenoChip Array, also including new samples from Albanian- and Greek-speaking ethno-linguistic minorities of Southern Italy. Our results reveal a shared Mediterranean genetic continuity, extending from Sicily to Cyprus, where Southern Italian populations appear genetically closer to Greek-speaking islands than to continental Greece. Besides a predominant Neolithic background, we identify traces of Post-Neolithic Levantine- and Caucasus-related ancestries, compatible with maritime Bronze-Age migrations. We argue that these results may have important implications in the cultural history of Europe, such as in the diffusion of some Indo-European languages. Instead, recent historical expansions from North-Eastern Europe account for the observed differentiation of present-day continental Southern Balkan groups. Patterns of IBD-sharing directly reconnect Albanian-speaking Arbereshe with a recent Balkan-source origin, while Greek-speaking communities of Southern Italy cluster with their Italian-speaking neighbours suggesting a long-term history of presence in Southern Italy.
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Chyleński M, Juras A, Ehler E, Malmström H, Piontek J, Jakobsson M, Marciniak A, Dabert M. Late Danubian mitochondrial genomes shed light into the Neolithisation of Central Europe in the 5 th millennium BC. BMC Evol Biol 2017; 17:80. [PMID: 28302068 PMCID: PMC5356262 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0924-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Recent aDNA studies are progressively focusing on various Neolithic and Hunter - Gatherer (HG) populations, providing arguments in favor of major migrations accompanying European Neolithisation. The major focus was so far on the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK), which introduced the Neolithic way of life in Central Europe in the second half of 6th millennium BC. It is widely agreed that people of this culture were genetically different from local HGs and no genetic exchange is seen between the two groups. From the other hand some degree of resurgence of HGs genetic component is seen in late Neolithic groups belonging to the complex of the Funnel Beaker Cultures (TRB). Less attention is brought to various middle Neolithic cultures belonging to Late Danubian sequence which chronologically fall in between those two abovementioned groups. We suspected that genetic influx from HG to farming communities might have happened in Late Danubian cultures since archaeologists see extensive contacts between those two communities. Results Here we address this issue by presenting 5 complete mitochondrial genomes of various late Danubian individuals from modern-day Poland and combining it with available published data. Our data show that Late Danubian cultures are maternally closely related to Funnel Beaker groups instead of culturally similar LBK. Conclusions We assume that it is an effect of the presence of individuals belonging to U5 haplogroup both in Late Danubians and the TRB. The U5 haplogroup is thought to be a typical for HGs of Europe and therefore we argue that it is an additional evidence of genetic exchange between farming and HG groups taking place at least as far back as in middle Neolithic, in the Late Danubian communities. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0924-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Maciej Chyleński
- Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89D, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.,Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague, Magdalény Rettigové 4, 116 39, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organismal Biology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Organismal Biology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89D, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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Jones ER, Zarina G, Moiseyev V, Lightfoot E, Nigst PR, Manica A, Pinhasi R, Bradley DG. The Neolithic Transition in the Baltic Was Not Driven by Admixture with Early European Farmers. Curr Biol 2017; 27:576-582. [PMID: 28162894 PMCID: PMC5321670 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2016] [Revised: 11/10/2016] [Accepted: 12/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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The Neolithic transition was a dynamic time in European prehistory of cultural, social, and technological change. Although this period has been well explored in central Europe using ancient nuclear DNA [1, 2], its genetic impact on northern and eastern parts of this continent has not been as extensively studied. To broaden our understanding of the Neolithic transition across Europe, we analyzed eight ancient genomes: six samples (four to ∼1- to 4-fold coverage) from a 3,500 year temporal transect (∼8,300–4,800 calibrated years before present) through the Baltic region dating from the Mesolithic to the Late Neolithic and two samples spanning the Mesolithic-Neolithic boundary from the Dnieper Rapids region of Ukraine. We find evidence that some hunter-gatherer ancestry persisted across the Neolithic transition in both regions. However, we also find signals consistent with influxes of non-local people, most likely from northern Eurasia and the Pontic Steppe. During the Late Neolithic, this Steppe-related impact coincides with the proposed emergence of Indo-European languages in the Baltic region [3, 4]. These influences are distinct from the early farmer admixture that transformed the genetic landscape of central Europe, suggesting that changes associated with the Neolithic package in the Baltic were not driven by the same Anatolian-sourced genetic exchange. A degree of genetic continuity from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Baltic Steppe-related genetic influences found in the Baltic during the Neolithic No Anatolian farmer-related genetic admixture in Neolithic Baltic samples Steppe ancestry in Latvia at the time of the emergence of Balto-Slavic languages
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- Eppie R Jones
- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
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- Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia, Kalpaka Bulvāris 4, Rīga 1050, Latvia
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- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK
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- Division of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
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- School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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Günther T, Jakobsson M. Genes mirror migrations and cultures in prehistoric Europe — a population genomic perspective. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2016; 41:115-123. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2016.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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MacHugh DE, Larson G, Orlando L. Taming the Past: Ancient DNA and the Study of Animal Domestication. Annu Rev Anim Biosci 2016; 5:329-351. [PMID: 27813680 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-animal-022516-022747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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During the last decade, ancient DNA research has been revolutionized by the availability of increasingly powerful DNA sequencing and ancillary genomics technologies, giving rise to the new field of paleogenomics. In this review, we show how our understanding of the genetic basis of animal domestication and the origins and dispersal of livestock and companion animals during the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic periods is being rapidly transformed through new scientific knowledge generated with paleogenomic methods. These techniques have been particularly informative in revealing high-resolution patterns of artificial and natural selection and evidence for significant admixture between early domestic animal populations and their wild congeners.
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- David E MacHugh
- Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland; .,UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; .,Université de Toulouse, University Paul Sabatier, Laboratoire AMIS, CNRS UMR 5288, 31000 Toulouse, France
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The latest in a series of transformative studies of DNA from prehistoric Europeans focuses on mitochondrial DNA, bringing fresh surprises and filling in important details of the early stages of a European ancestry stretching back more than 40,000 years.
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Gallego-Llorente M, Connell S, Jones ER, Merrett DC, Jeon Y, Eriksson A, Siska V, Gamba C, Meiklejohn C, Beyer R, Jeon S, Cho YS, Hofreiter M, Bhak J, Manica A, Pinhasi R. The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31326. [PMID: 27502179 PMCID: PMC4977546 DOI: 10.1038/srep31326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2016] [Accepted: 07/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39x) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh, in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, a site with early evidence for an economy based on goat herding, ca. 10,000 BP. We show that Western Iran was inhabited by a population genetically most similar to hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus, but distinct from the Neolithic Anatolian people who later brought food production into Europe. The inhabitants of Ganj Dareh made little direct genetic contribution to modern European populations, suggesting those of the Central Zagros were somewhat isolated from other populations of the Fertile Crescent. Runs of homozygosity are of a similar length to those from Neolithic farmers, and shorter than those of Caucasus and Western Hunter-Gatherers, suggesting that the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh did not undergo the large population bottleneck suffered by their northern neighbours. While some degree of cultural diffusion between Anatolia, Western Iran and other neighbouring regions is possible, the genetic dissimilarity between early Anatolian farmers and the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh supports a model in which Neolithic societies in these areas were distinct.
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- School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
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- The Genomics Institute, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.,Integrative Systems Biology Laboratory, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences &Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK
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- School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK
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- The Genomics Institute, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- The Genomics Institute, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknechtstraße 24-25, Potsdam, 14476, Germany
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- The Genomics Institute, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK
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- School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia. Curr Biol 2016; 26:2659-2666. [PMID: 27498567 PMCID: PMC5069350 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2016] [Revised: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The archaeological documentation of the development of sedentary farming societies in Anatolia is not yet mirrored by a genetic understanding of the human populations involved, in contrast to the spread of farming in Europe [1-3]. Sedentary farming communities emerged in parts of the Fertile Crescent during the tenth millennium and early ninth millennium calibrated (cal) BC and had appeared in central Anatolia by 8300 cal BC [4]. Farming spread into west Anatolia by the early seventh millennium cal BC and quasi-synchronously into Europe, although the timing and process of this movement remain unclear. Using genome sequence data that we generated from nine central Anatolian Neolithic individuals, we studied the transition period from early Aceramic (Pre-Pottery) to the later Pottery Neolithic, when farming expanded west of the Fertile Crescent. We find that genetic diversity in the earliest farmers was conspicuously low, on a par with European foraging groups. With the advent of the Pottery Neolithic, genetic variation within societies reached levels later found in early European farmers. Our results confirm that the earliest Neolithic central Anatolians belonged to the same gene pool as the first Neolithic migrants spreading into Europe. Further, genetic affinities between later Anatolian farmers and fourth to third millennium BC Chalcolithic south Europeans suggest an additional wave of Anatolian migrants, after the initial Neolithic spread but before the Yamnaya-related migrations. We propose that the earliest farming societies demographically resembled foragers and that only after regional gene flow and rising heterogeneity did the farming population expansions into Europe occur.
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Broushaki F, Thomas MG, Link V, López S, van Dorp L, Kirsanow K, Hofmanová Z, Diekmann Y, Cassidy LM, Díez-del-Molino D, Kousathanas A, Sell C, Robson HK, Martiniano R, Blöcher J, Scheu A, Kreutzer S, Bollongino R, Bobo D, Davudi H, Munoz O, Currat M, Abdi K, Biglari F, Craig OE, Bradley DG, Shennan S, Veeramah K, Mashkour M, Wegmann D, Hellenthal G, Burger J. Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent. Science 2016; 353:499-503. [PMID: 27417496 PMCID: PMC5113750 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterized population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed substantially to the ancestry of modern Europeans. These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46,000 to 77,000 years ago and show affinities to modern-day Pakistani and Afghan populations, but particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians. We conclude that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in southwestern Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion.
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- Farnaz Broushaki
- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, SE-10405, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Unit of Human Evolutionary Genetics, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794- 5245, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- UMR 7041 ArScAn -VEPMO, Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie, 21 allée de l’Université, 92023 Nanterre, France
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- Department of Genetics & Evolution-Anthropology Unit, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California-lrvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3370, USA
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- Paleolithic Department, National Museum of Iran, 113617111, Tehran, Iran
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London WC1H 0PY, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794- 5245, USA
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- CNRS/MNHN/SUs – UMR 7209, Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:6886-91. [PMID: 27274049 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523951113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes. Conspicuous uncertainties remain about the relative roles of migration, cultural diffusion, and admixture with local foragers in the early Neolithization of Europe. Here we present paleogenomic data for five Neolithic individuals from northern Greece and northwestern Turkey spanning the time and region of the earliest spread of farming into Europe. We use a novel approach to recalibrate raw reads and call genotypes from ancient DNA and observe striking genetic similarity both among Aegean early farmers and with those from across Europe. Our study demonstrates a direct genetic link between Mediterranean and Central European early farmers and those of Greece and Anatolia, extending the European Neolithic migratory chain all the way back to southwestern Asia.
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