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Sandoval-Castellanos E, Hare AJ, Lin AT, Dimopoulos EA, Daly KG, Geiger S, Mullin VE, Wiechmann I, Mattiangeli V, Lühken G, Zinovieva NA, Zidarov P, Çakırlar C, Stoddart S, Orton D, Bulatović J, Mashkour M, Sauer EW, Horwitz LK, Horejs B, Atici L, Özkaya V, Mullville J, Parker Pearson M, Mainland I, Card N, Brown L, Sharples N, Griffiths D, Allen D, Arbuckle B, Abell JT, Duru G, Mentzer SM, Munro ND, Uzdurum M, Gülçur S, Buitenhuis H, Gladyr E, Stiner MC, Pöllath N, Özbaşaran M, Krebs S, Burger J, Frantz L, Medugorac I, Bradley DG, Peters J. Ancient mitogenomes from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Central Anatolia and the effects of a Late Neolithic bottleneck in sheep ( Ovis aries). SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadj0954. [PMID: 38608027 PMCID: PMC11014441 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj0954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
Abstract
Occupied between ~10,300 and 9300 years ago, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Central Anatolia went through early phases of sheep domestication. Analysis of 629 mitochondrial genomes from this and numerous sites in Anatolia, southwest Asia, Europe, and Africa produced a phylogenetic tree with excessive coalescences (nodes) around the Neolithic, a potential signature of a domestication bottleneck. This is consistent with archeological evidence of sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük which transitioned from residential stabling to open pasturing over a millennium of site occupation. However, unexpectedly, we detected high genetic diversity throughout Aşıklı Höyük's occupation rather than a bottleneck. Instead, we detected a tenfold demographic bottleneck later in the Neolithic, which caused the fixation of mitochondrial haplogroup B in southwestern Anatolia. The mitochondrial genetic makeup that emerged was carried from the core region of early Neolithic sheep management into Europe and dominates the matrilineal diversity of both its ancient and the billion-strong modern sheep populations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edson Sandoval-Castellanos
- Population Genomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
- Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560 USA
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
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- Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus Liebig University of Gießen, Ludwigstr. 21, 35390 Gießen, Germany
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- L.K. Ernst Federal Research Centre for Animal Husbandry, Dubrovitsy, Podolsk, Moscow Region, Russia
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- Institute of Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, 9712 ER Groningen, Netherlands
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- Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0AG, UK
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5NG, UK
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- Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, BOX 200, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Unité Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 75020 Paris, France
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- National Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- OeAI, Austrian Academy of Sciences and HEAS, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Türkiye
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- School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3EU, UK
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- The University of the Highlands and Islands Orkney, Kirkwall, UK
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- The University of the Highlands and Islands Orkney, Kirkwall, UK
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- School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3EU, UK
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- University of Oxford, OUDCE, Rewley House, Oxford OX1 2JA, UK
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- Hampshire Cultural Trust, Chilcomb House, Winchester, SO23 8RB, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 34381 Şişli/İstanbul, Türkiye
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- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen University, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55270 Atakum/Samsun, Türkiye
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- Prehistory Department, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University, 34134 Istanbul, Türkiye
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- L.K. Ernst Federal Research Centre for Animal Husbandry, Dubrovitsy, Podolsk, Moscow Region, Russia
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- School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Bavarian Natural History Collections, State Collection of Palaeoanatomy Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany
- ArchaeoBioCenter, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Prehistory Department, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University, 34134 Istanbul, Türkiye
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- Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, LMU Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Straße 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iomE), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Palaeogenomics Group, Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Population Genomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
- ArchaeoBioCenter, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
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- Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
- Bavarian Natural History Collections, State Collection of Palaeoanatomy Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany
- ArchaeoBioCenter, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
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Lima M, Gayo EM, Estay SA, Gurruchaga A, Robinson E, Freeman J, Latorre C, Bird D. Positive feedbacks in deep-time transitions of human populations. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2024; 379:20220256. [PMID: 37952621 PMCID: PMC10645116 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
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Abrupt and rapid changes in human societies are among the most exciting population phenomena. Human populations tend to show rapid expansions from low to high population density along with increased social complexity in just a few generations. Such demographic transitions appear as a remarkable feature of Homo sapiens population dynamics, most likely fuelled by the ability to accumulate cultural/technological innovations that actively modify their environment. We are especially interested in establishing if the demographic transitions of pre-historic populations show the same dynamic signature of the Industrial Revolution transition (a positive relationship between population growth rates and size). Our results show that population growth patterns across different pre-historic societies were similar to those observed during the Industrial Revolution in developed western societies. These features, which appear to have been operating during most of our recent demographic history from hunter-gatherers to modern industrial societies, imply that the dynamics of cooperation underlay sudden population transitions in human societies. This article is part of the theme issue 'Evolution and sustainability: gathering the strands for an Anthropocene synthesis'.
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- Mauricio Lima
- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM 8320000, Chile
- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM 8320000, Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM 8320000, Chile
- Departamento de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM 8320000, Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM 8320000, Chile
- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia 5090000, Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM 8320000, Chile
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- School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 852879, USA
- Native Environment Solutions LLC, Boise, ID, 83250, USA
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- Anthropology Program, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322, USA
- The Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322, USA
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM 8320000, Chile
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- Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, 99164, USA
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Großmann R, Weinelt M, Müller J. Demographic dynamics between 5500 and 3500 calBP (3550-1550 BCE) in selected study regions of Central Europe and the role of regional climate influences. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0291956. [PMID: 37878565 PMCID: PMC10599579 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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With their rich Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age archives, the Circumharz region, the Czech Republic/Lower Austria region, and the Northern Alpine Foreland are well-suited for research on potential links between human activities and climate fluctuations of this period with pronounced archaeological changes. In this paper, we reconstruct the rate and density of the available 14C data from 5500 to 3500 calBP (3550-1550 BCE). We ask to what extent population patterns varied over time and space, and whether fluctuations in human populations and their activities varied with local/regional climate changes. To answer these questions, we have compiled an extensive list of published radiocarbon dates and created 14C sum calibrations for each region. We also compare population dynamics with local and regional palaeoclimate records derived from high-resolution speleothems. At the regional scale, the results suggest a causal relationship between regional climate and population trends. Climate and associated environmental changes were thus at least partly responsible for demographic trends. These results also allow us to question the motivation for the construction of so-called "Early Bronze Age princely tombs" in the Circumharz region during a period of population decline. Among other things, it can be argued that the upper echelons of society may have benefited from trade relations. However, this process was accompanied by ecological stress, a cooling of the winter climate, a decline in the total population and an increase in social inequality.
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- Ralph Großmann
- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence ROOTS—Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence ROOTS—Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence ROOTS—Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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