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Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans.


ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Hofmanova Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4922144 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans.

Hofmanová Zuzana Z   Kreutzer Susanne S   Hellenthal Garrett G   Sell Christian C   Diekmann Yoan Y   Díez-Del-Molino David D   van Dorp Lucy L   López Saioa S   Kousathanas Athanasios A   Link Vivian V   Kirsanow Karola K   Cassidy Lara M LM   Martiniano Rui R   Strobel Melanie M   Scheu Amelie A   Kotsakis Kostas K   Halstead Paul P   Triantaphyllou Sevi S   Kyparissi-Apostolika Nina N   Urem-Kotsou Dushka D   Ziota Christina C   Adaktylou Fotini F   Gopalan Shyamalika S   Bobo Dean M DM   Winkelbach Laura L   Blöcher Jens J   Unterländer Martina M   Leuenberger Christoph C   Çilingiroğlu Çiler Ç   Horejs Barbara B   Gerritsen Fokke F   Shennan Stephen J SJ   Bradley Daniel G DG   Currat Mathias M   Veeramah Krishna R KR   Wegmann Daniel D   Thomas Mark G MG   Papageorgopoulou Christina C   Burger Joachim J  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160606 25


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 spre  ...[more]

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