1. Origin and mobility of Iron Age Gaulish groups in present-day France revealed through archaeogenomics
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Claire-Elise Fischer, Marie-Hélène Pemonge, Isaure Ducoussau, Ana Arzelier, Maïté Rivollat, Frederic Santos, Hélène Barrand Emam, Alexandre Bertaud, Alexandre Beylier, Elsa Ciesielski, Bernard Dedet, Sophie Desenne, Henri Duday, Fanny Chenal, Eric Gailledrat, Sébastien Goepfert, Olivier Gorgé, Alexis Gorgues, Gertrud Kuhnle, François Lambach, Anthony Lefort, Amandine Mauduit, Florent Maziere, Sophie Oudry, Cécile Paresys, Estelle Pinard, Suzanne Plouin, Isabelle Richard, Muriel Roth-Zehner, Réjane Roure, Corinne Thevenet, Yohann Thomas, Stéphane Rottier, Marie-France Deguilloux, Mélanie Pruvost, De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology [Leipzig], Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe (ARCHIMEDE), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ausonius-Institut de recherche sur l'Antiquité et le Moyen âge, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (ASM), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Trajectoires - UMR 8215, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Recherche et d'Analyse Physico-Chimique (INRAP), Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées [Brétigny-sur-Orge] (IRBA), Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé (ADES), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-EFS ALPES MEDITERRANEE-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)
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Multidisciplinary ,[SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,STEPPE ,[SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics ,History and Archaeology ,GENOMIC HISTORY ,[SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology ,DNA ,ANCIENT - Abstract
Highlights•49 low coverage genomes from 27 sites from France, dated to ≈1200–80 years cal BCE•No major migration or population turnover between Bronze and Iron Age in France•A gradual North/South genetic structuration of IA populations•Evidence of individual mobility between regions and neighboring countriesSummaryThe Iron Age period occupies an important place in French history because the Gauls are regularly presented as the direct ancestors of the extant French population. We documented here the genomic diversity of Iron Age communities originating from six French regions. The 49 acquired genomes permitted us to highlight an absence of discontinuity between Bronze Age and Iron Age groups in France, lending support to a cultural transition linked to progressive local economic changes rather than to a massive influx of allochthone groups. Genomic analyses revealed strong genetic homogeneity among the regional groups associated with distinct archaeological cultures. This genomic homogenization appears to be linked to individuals’ mobility between regions and gene flow with neighbouring groups from England and Spain. Thus, the results globally support a common genomic legacy for the Iron Age population of modern-day France that could be linked to recurrent gene flow between culturally differentiated communities.
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- 2021
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