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Shinde V, Narasimhan VM, Rohland N, Mallick S, Mah M, Lipson M, Nakatsuka N, Adamski N, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Ferry M, Lawson AM, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Stewardson K, Jadhav N, Kim YJ, Chatterjee M, Munshi A, Panyam A, Waghmare P, Yadav Y, Patel H, Kaushik A, Thangaraj K, Meyer M, Patterson N, Rai N, Reich D. An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers. Cell 2019; 179:729-735.e10. [PMID: 31495572 PMCID: PMC6800651 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 08/26/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
We report an ancient genome from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The individual we sequenced fits as a mixture of people related to ancient Iranians (the largest component) and Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers, a unique profile that matches ancient DNA from 11 genetic outliers from sites in Iran and Turkmenistan in cultural communication with the IVC. These individuals had little if any Steppe pastoralist-derived ancestry, showing that it was not ubiquitous in northwest South Asia during the IVC as it is today. The Iranian-related ancestry in the IVC derives from a lineage leading to early Iranian farmers, herders, and hunter-gatherers before their ancestors separated, contradicting the hypothesis that the shared ancestry between early Iranians and South Asians reflects a large-scale spread of western Iranian farmers east. Instead, sampled ancient genomes from the Iranian plateau and IVC descend from different groups of hunter-gatherers who began farming without being connected by substantial movement of people.
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- Vasant Shinde
- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006, India
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- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226007, India
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- Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida 201313, India
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226007, India; CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Feldman M, Master DM, Bianco RA, Burri M, Stockhammer PW, Mittnik A, Aja AJ, Jeong C, Krause J. Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2019; 5:eaax0061. [PMID: 31281897 PMCID: PMC6609216 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
The ancient Mediterranean port city of Ashkelon, identified as "Philistine" during the Iron Age, underwent a marked cultural change between the Late Bronze and the early Iron Age. It has been long debated whether this change was driven by a substantial movement of people, possibly linked to a larger migration of the so-called "Sea Peoples." Here, we report genome-wide data of 10 Bronze and Iron Age individuals from Ashkelon. We find that the early Iron Age population was genetically distinct due to a European-related admixture. This genetic signal is no longer detectible in the later Iron Age population. Our results support that a migration event occurred during the Bronze to Iron Age transition in Ashkelon but did not leave a long-lasting genetic signature.
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- Michal Feldman
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Wheaton Archaeology Museum, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187, USA
- Harvard Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
- Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Schellingstrasse 12, D-80799 München, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Harvard Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
- School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Corresponding author. (C.J.); (J.K.)
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
- Corresponding author. (C.J.); (J.K.)
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