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1. Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes

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Kyriaki Anastasiadou, Marina Silva, Thomas Booth, Leo Speidel, Tony Audsley, Christopher Barrington, Jo Buckberry, Diana Fernandes, Ben Ford, Mark Gibson, Alexandre Gilardet, Isabelle Glocke, Katie Keefe, Monica Kelly, Mackenzie Masters, Jesse McCabe, Lauren McIntyre, Paola Ponce, Stephen Rowland, Jordi Ruiz Ventura, Pooja Swali, Frankie Tait, David Walker, Helen Webb, Mia Williams, Annsofie Witkin, Malin Holst, Louise Loe, Ian Armit, Rick Schulting, and Pontus Skoglund

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Biology (General), QH301-705.5
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Abstract Ancient DNA is a valuable tool for investigating genetic and evolutionary history that can also provide detailed profiles of the lives of ancient individuals. In this study, we develop a generalised computational approach to detect aneuploidies (atypical autosomal and sex chromosome karyotypes) in the ancient genetic record and distinguish such karyotypes from contamination. We confirm that aneuploidies can be detected even in low-coverage genomes ( ~ 0.0001-fold), common in ancient DNA. We apply this method to ancient skeletal remains from Britain to document the first instance of mosaic Turner syndrome (45,X0/46,XX) in the ancient genetic record in an Iron Age individual sequenced to average 9-fold coverage, the earliest known incidence of an individual with a 47,XYY karyotype from the Early Medieval period, as well as individuals with Klinefelter (47,XXY) and Down syndrome (47,XY, + 21). Overall, our approach provides an accessible and automated framework allowing for the detection of individuals with aneuploidies, which extends previous binary approaches. This tool can facilitate the interpretation of burial context and living conditions, as well as elucidate past perceptions of biological sex and people with diverse biological traits.

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2024
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2. Interdisciplinarna študija človeških ostankov s starejšeželeznodobnega grobišča v Zagorju ob Savi

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Rebecca Anne Nicholls, Jo Buckberry, Matija Črešnar, Ian Armit, Philip Mason, and Hannah Koon

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zagorje ob savi, starejša železna doba, človeška osteologija, stabilni izotopi, interdisciplinarni pristop, Ancient history, D51-90
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Prispevek predstavlja dognanja interdisciplinarne raziskave človeških kostnih ostankov, odkritih leta 2011 na grobišču iz starejše železne dobe na Cesti Borisa Kidriča v Zagorju ob Savi. Študija je del obsežnejšega projekta osteoloških in izotopskih analiz kostnih ostankov iz bronaste in železne dobe (14–4. st. pr. n. št.) z območij Slovenije in Hrvaške. Osteološka raziskava šestih oseb je pokazala, da gre za ostanke enega mlajšega odraslega moškega, enega zrelega odraslega moškega in dveh zrelih odraslih žensk ter dveh otrok nedoločljivega spola. Pri vseh šestih osebah so bile na kolagenu, pridobljenem iz kosti in/ali dentina, opravljene analize stabilnih izotopov ogljika in dušika. Na podlagi rezultatov lahko pri vseh osebah sklepamo na kopensko prehrano, ki vključuje živalske proteine (meso in/ali mlečne izdelke) in rastlinske sestavine tako iz rastlin C3 kot C4.

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2020
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3. Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa

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Julia Best, Sean Doherty, Ian Armit, Zlatozar Boev, Lindsey Büster, Barry Cunliffe, Alison Foster, Ben Frimet, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Tom Higham, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Holly Miller, Joris Peters, Michaël Seigle, Caroline Skelton, Rob Symmons, Richard Thomas, Angela Trentacoste, Mark Maltby, Greger Larson, and Naomi Sykes

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Europe, domestication, Archeology, north-west Africa, General Arts and Humanities, chickens, AMS dating, dispersal
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Little is known about the early history of the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), including the timing and circumstances of its introduction into new cultural environments. To evaluate its spatio-temporal spread across Eurasia and north-west Africa, the authors radiocarbon dated 23 chicken bones from presumed early contexts. Three-quarters returned dates later than those suggested by stratigraphy, indicating the importance of direct dating. The results indicate that chickens did not arrive in Europe until the first millennium BC. Moreover, a consistent time-lag between the introduction of chickens and their consumption by humans suggests that these animals were initially regarded as exotica and only several centuries later recognised as a source of ‘food’.

Published
2022

4. A Multi-Proxy Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Record of Climate Change and Prehistoric Human Activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland

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Kevin Kearney, Benjamin Gearey, Susan Hegarty, Suzi Richer, Carla Ferreira, Ellen O’Carroll, Derek Hamilton, James Eogan, Meriel McClatchie, Ian Armit, Caitlin Nagle, Kate Taylor, Graham Hull, and Katharina Becker

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Pollen analysis, Archeology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Archaeology, Paleontology, Palaeoecology, Ireland, Earth-Surface Processes, Chronology
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A multiproxy (pollen, microcharcoal, loss-on-ignition, magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry) sequence from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland, supported by a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology, modelled using Bayesian approaches, provides a record of environmental change for much of the Holocene. Following the establishment of mixed deciduous woodland, climatic deterioration was likely responsible for pronounced vegetation change and erosion, 7615–6500 cal. BC to 6245–5575 cal. BC, evidence for the ‘8.2 Kyr’ BP climate event. The so-called ‘elm decline’ is dated to 4220–3980 cal. BC and whilst there are possible indications of an anthropogenic cause, clear evidence of woodland clearance with cereal pollen is recorded at 3900–3700 cal. BC, 3790–3580 cal. BC and 3760–3650 cal. BC, during a period of clearance and farming of 320–450 years duration. A reduction in farming/settlement and woodland regeneration during the Middle Neolithic parallels the archaeological record, with low levels of activity during the Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic after 2960–2525 cal. BC, prior to increases during the Bronze Age then woodland clearance and agriculture between 1500–1410 and 1275–1000 cal. BC, corresponding with the archaeological evidence. A subsequent ‘step-wise’ reduction in human activity follows, from the latter date to 815–685 cal. BC, and a brief but pronounced cessation at 690–535 cal. BC. Renewed woodland clearance and agriculture commenced until 415–250 cal. BC. From the latter date until cal. AD 390–540, the Late Iron Age/Early Medieval period, a phase of woodland recovery is attested, followed by renewed landscape disturbance and arable agriculture in particular, continuing to the close of the record at cal. AD 780–1035.

Published
2022

5. A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia

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Iosif, Lazaridis, Songül, Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Ayşe, Acar, Ayşen, Açıkkol, Anagnostis, Agelarakis, Levon, Aghikyan, Uğur, Akyüz, Desislava, Andreeva, Gojko, Andrijašević, Dragana, Antonović, Ian, Armit, Alper, Atmaca, Pavel, Avetisyan, Ahmet İhsan, Aytek, Krum, Bacvarov, Ruben, Badalyan, Stefan, Bakardzhiev, Jacqueline, Balen, Lorenc, Bejko, Rebecca, Bernardos, Andreas, Bertsatos, Hanifi, Biber, Ahmet, Bilir, Mario, Bodružić, Michelle, Bonogofsky, Clive, Bonsall, Dušan, Borić, Nikola, Borovinić, Guillermo, Bravo Morante, Katharina, Buttinger, Kim, Callan, Francesca, Candilio, Mario, Carić, Olivia, Cheronet, Stefan, Chohadzhiev, Maria-Eleni, Chovalopoulou, Stella, Chryssoulaki, Ion, Ciobanu, Natalija, Čondić, Mihai, Constantinescu, Emanuela, Cristiani, Brendan J, Culleton, Elizabeth, Curtis, Jack, Davis, Tatiana I, Demcenco, Valentin, Dergachev, Zafer, Derin, Sylvia, Deskaj, Seda, Devejyan, Vojislav, Djordjević, Kellie Sara, Duffett Carlson, Laurie R, Eccles, Nedko, Elenski, Atilla, Engin, Nihat, Erdoğan, Sabiha, Erir-Pazarcı, Daniel M, Fernandes, Matthew, Ferry, Suzanne, Freilich, Alin, Frînculeasa, Michael L, Galaty, Beatriz, Gamarra, Boris, Gasparyan, Bisserka, Gaydarska, Elif, Genç, Timur, Gültekin, Serkan, Gündüz, Tamás, Hajdu, Volker, Heyd, Suren, Hobosyan, Nelli, Hovhannisyan, Iliya, Iliev, Lora, Iliev, Stanislav, Iliev, İlkay, İvgin, Ivor, Janković, Lence, Jovanova, Panagiotis, Karkanas, Berna, Kavaz-Kındığılı, Esra Hilal, Kaya, Denise, Keating, Douglas J, Kennett, Seda, Deniz Kesici, Anahit, Khudaverdyan, Krisztián, Kiss, Sinan, Kılıç, Paul, Klostermann, Sinem, Kostak Boca Negra Valdes, Saša, Kovačević, Marta, Krenz-Niedbała, Maja, Krznarić Škrivanko, Rovena, Kurti, Pasko, Kuzman, Ann Marie, Lawson, Catalin, Lazar, Krassimir, Leshtakov, Thomas E, Levy, Ioannis, Liritzis, Kirsi O, Lorentz, Sylwia, Łukasik, Matthew, Mah, Swapan, Mallick, Kirsten, Mandl, Kristine, Martirosyan-Olshansky, Roger, Matthews, Wendy, Matthews, Kathleen, McSweeney, Varduhi, Melikyan, Adam, Micco, Megan, Michel, Lidija, Milašinović, Alissa, Mittnik, Janet M, Monge, Georgi, Nekhrizov, Rebecca, Nicholls, Alexey G, Nikitin, Vassil, Nikolov, Mario, Novak, Iñigo, Olalde, Jonas, Oppenheimer, Anna, Osterholtz, Celal, Özdemir, Kadir Toykan, Özdoğan, Nurettin, Öztürk, Nikos, Papadimitriou, Niki, Papakonstantinou, Anastasia, Papathanasiou, Lujana, Paraman, Evgeny G, Paskary, Nick, Patterson, Ilian, Petrakiev, Levon, Petrosyan, Vanya, Petrova, Anna, Philippa-Touchais, Ashot, Piliposyan, Nada, Pocuca Kuzman, Hrvoje, Potrebica, Bianca, Preda-Bălănică, Zrinka, Premužić, T Douglas, Price, Lijun, Qiu, Siniša, Radović, Kamal, Raeuf Aziz, Petra, Rajić Šikanjić, Kamal, Rasheed Raheem, Sergei, Razumov, Amy, Richardson, Jacob, Roodenberg, Rudenc, Ruka, Victoria, Russeva, Mustafa, Şahin, Ayşegül, Şarbak, Emre, Savaş, Constanze, Schattke, Lynne, Schepartz, Tayfun, Selçuk, Ayla, Sevim-Erol, Michel, Shamoon-Pour, Henry M, Shephard, Athanasios, Sideris, Angela, Simalcsik, Hakob, Simonyan, Vitalij, Sinika, Kendra, Sirak, Ghenadie, Sirbu, Mario, Šlaus, Andrei, Soficaru, Bilal, Söğüt, Arkadiusz, Sołtysiak, Çilem, Sönmez-Sözer, Maria, Stathi, Martin, Steskal, Kristin, Stewardson, Sharon, Stocker, Fadime, Suata-Alpaslan, Alexander, Suvorov, Anna, Szécsényi-Nagy, Tamás, Szeniczey, Nikolai, Telnov, Strahil, Temov, Nadezhda, Todorova, Ulsi, Tota, Gilles, Touchais, Sevi, Triantaphyllou, Atila, Türker, Marina, Ugarković, Todor, Valchev, Fanica, Veljanovska, Zlatko, Videvski, Cristian, Virag, Anna, Wagner, Sam, Walsh, Piotr, Włodarczak, J Noah, Workman, Aram, Yardumian, Evgenii, Yarovoy, Alper Yener, Yavuz, Hakan, Yılmaz, Fatma, Zalzala, Anna, Zettl, Zhao, Zhang, Rafet, Çavuşoğlu, Nadin, Rohland, Ron, Pinhasi, David, Reich, Ruben, Davtyan, and Edebiyat Fakültesi

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Genomic History, Asia, Multidisciplinary, Greece, Ancient DNA, Europe, Turkey, Migration, Urartian Kingdom, Roman and Byzantine Empires, Human Migration, Population, Genetic Variation, Admixture, Dna, human genetics, archaeogentic analysis, literary and archaeological sources, Southern Europe, Western Asia, Eye, History, Medieval, Article, Europe, Archaeology, Languages, Humans, Selection, History, Ancient, Hair, Skin
Abstract

Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from the general population and included both people with some steppe ancestry and others, like the Griffin Warrior, without it. Similarly, people in the central area of the Urartian Kingdom around Lake Van lacked the steppe ancestry characteristic of the kingdom's northern provinces. Anatolia exhibited extraordinary continuity down to the Roman and Byzantine periods, with its people serving as the demographic core of much of the Roman Empire, including the city of Rome itself. During medieval times, migrations associated with Slavic and Turkic speakers profoundly affected the region., National Institutes of Health [GM100233, HG012287]; John Templeton Foundation [61220]; Allen Discovery Center program; Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The newly reported dataset is described in detail in an accompanying manuscript, where we also acknowledge the funders who supported dataset generation (1). Analysis of data was supported by the National Institutes of Health (GM100233 and HG012287), the John Templeton Foundation (grant 61220), a private gift from Jean-Francois Clin, the Allen Discovery Center program, a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (to D.R.).

Published
2022

6. Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

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Iosif Lazaridis, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Ayşe Acar, Ayşen Açıkkol, Anagnostis Agelarakis, Levon Aghikyan, Uğur Akyüz, Desislava Andreeva, Gojko Andrijašević, Dragana Antonović, Ian Armit, Alper Atmaca, Pavel Avetisyan, Ahmet İhsan Aytek, Krum Bacvarov, Ruben Badalyan, Stefan Bakardzhiev, Jacqueline Balen, Lorenc Bejko, Rebecca Bernardos, Andreas Bertsatos, Hanifi Biber, Ahmet Bilir, Mario Bodružić, Michelle Bonogofsky, Clive Bonsall, Dušan Borić, Nikola Borovinić, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Katharina Buttinger, Kim Callan, Francesca Candilio, Mario Carić, Olivia Cheronet, Stefan Chohadzhiev, Maria-Eleni Chovalopoulou, Stella Chryssoulaki, Ion Ciobanu, Natalija Čondić, Mihai Constantinescu, Emanuela Cristiani, Brendan J. Culleton, Elizabeth Curtis, Jack Davis, Tatiana I. Demcenco, Valentin Dergachev, Zafer Derin, Sylvia Deskaj, Seda Devejyan, Vojislav Djordjević, Kellie Sara Duffett Carlson, Laurie R. Eccles, Nedko Elenski, Atilla Engin, Nihat Erdoğan, Sabiha Erir-Pazarcı, Daniel M. Fernandes, Matthew Ferry, Suzanne Freilich, Alin Frînculeasa, Michael L. Galaty, Beatriz Gamarra, Boris Gasparyan, Bisserka Gaydarska, Elif Genç, Timur Gültekin, Serkan Gündüz, Tamás Hajdu, Volker Heyd, Suren Hobosyan, Nelli Hovhannisyan, Iliya Iliev, Lora Iliev, Stanislav Iliev, İlkay İvgin, Ivor Janković, Lence Jovanova, Panagiotis Karkanas, Berna Kavaz-Kındığılı, Esra Hilal Kaya, Denise Keating, Douglas J. Kennett, Seda Deniz Kesici, Anahit Khudaverdyan, Krisztián Kiss, Sinan Kılıç, Paul Klostermann, Sinem Kostak Boca Negra Valdes, Saša Kovačević, Marta Krenz-Niedbała, Maja Krznarić Škrivanko, Rovena Kurti, Pasko Kuzman, Ann Marie Lawson, Catalin Lazar, Krassimir Leshtakov, Thomas E. Levy, Ioannis Liritzis, Kirsi O. Lorentz, Sylwia Łukasik, Matthew Mah, Swapan Mallick, Kirsten Mandl, Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kathleen McSweeney, Varduhi Melikyan, Adam Micco, Megan Michel, Lidija Milašinović, Alissa Mittnik, Janet M. Monge, Georgi Nekhrizov, Rebecca Nicholls, Alexey G. Nikitin, Vassil Nikolov, Mario Novak, Iñigo Olalde, Jonas Oppenheimer, Anna Osterholtz, Celal Özdemir, Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, Nurettin Öztürk, Nikos Papadimitriou, Niki Papakonstantinou, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Lujana Paraman, Evgeny G. Paskary, Nick Patterson, Ilian Petrakiev, Levon Petrosyan, Vanya Petrova, Anna Philippa-Touchais, Ashot Piliposyan, Nada Pocuca Kuzman, Hrvoje Potrebica, Bianca Preda-Bălănică, Zrinka Premužić, T. Douglas Price, Lijun Qiu, Siniša Radović, Kamal Raeuf Aziz, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Kamal Rasheed Raheem, Sergei Razumov, Amy Richardson, Jacob Roodenberg, Rudenc Ruka, Victoria Russeva, Mustafa Şahin, Ayşegül Şarbak, Emre Savaş, Constanze Schattke, Lynne Schepartz, Tayfun Selçuk, Ayla Sevim-Erol, Michel Shamoon-Pour, Henry M. Shephard, Athanasios Sideris, Angela Simalcsik, Hakob Simonyan, Vitalij Sinika, Kendra Sirak, Ghenadie Sirbu, Mario Šlaus, Andrei Soficaru, Bilal Söğüt, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Çilem Sönmez-Sözer, Maria Stathi, Martin Steskal, Kristin Stewardson, Sharon Stocker, Fadime Suata-Alpaslan, Alexander Suvorov, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Tamás Szeniczey, Nikolai Telnov, Strahil Temov, Nadezhda Todorova, Ulsi Tota, Gilles Touchais, Sevi Triantaphyllou, Atila Türker, Marina Ugarković, Todor Valchev, Fanica Veljanovska, Zlatko Videvski, Cristian Virag, Anna Wagner, Sam Walsh, Piotr Włodarczak, J. Noah Workman, Aram Yardumian, Evgenii Yarovoy, Alper Yener Yavuz, Hakan Yılmaz, Fatma Zalzala, Anna Zettl, Zhao Zhang, Rafet Çavuşoğlu, Nadin Rohland, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich, and Edebiyat Fakültesi

Subjects
Europe, History, Multidisciplinary, Origin, Genomes, Article, ancient DNA, Neolithic migrations, Anatolia, Fertile Crescent, hunter-gatherers, early farmers, 1st Farmers
Abstract

We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with the first data from Neolithic Armenia. We show that these and neighboring populations were formed through admixture of pre-Neolithic sources related to Anatolian, Caucasus, and Levantine hunter-gatherers, forming a Neolithic continuum of ancestry mirroring the geography of West Asia. By analyzing Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic populations of Anatolia, we show that the former were derived from admixture between Mesopotamian-related and local Epipaleolithic-related sources, but the latter experienced additional Levantine-related gene flow, thus documenting at least two pulses of migration from the Fertile Crescent heartland to the early farmers of Anatolia., National Institutes of Health [GM100233, HG012287]; John Templeton Foundation [61220]; Allen Discovery Center program; Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The newly reported dataset is described in detail in an accompanying Research Article, where we also acknowledge the funders who supported dataset generation (12). Analysis of data was supported by the National Institutes of Health (GM100233 and HG012287), the John Templeton Foundation (grant 61220), a private gift from Jean-Francois Clin, the Allen Discovery Center program, a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (D.R.).

Published
2022

7. Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

Author

Nick Patterson, Michael Isakov, Thomas Booth, Lindsey Büster, Claire-Elise Fischer, Iñigo Olalde, Harald Ringbauer, Ali Akbari, Olivia Cheronet, Madeleine Bleasdale, Nicole Adamski, Eveline Altena, Rebecca Bernardos, Selina Brace, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Kimberly Callan, Francesca Candilio, Brendan Culleton, Elizabeth Curtis, Lea Demetz, Kellie Sara Duffett Carlson, Ceiridwen J. Edwards, Daniel M. Fernandes, M. George B. Foody, Suzanne Freilich, Helen Goodchild, Aisling Kearns, Ann Marie Lawson, Iosif Lazaridis, Matthew Mah, Swapan Mallick, Kirsten Mandl, Adam Micco, Megan Michel, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Jonas Oppenheimer, Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, Lijun Qiu, Constanze Schattke, Kristin Stewardson, J. Noah Workman, Fatma Zalzala, Zhao Zhang, Bibiana Agustí, Tim Allen, Katalin Almássy, Luc Amkreutz, Abigail Ash, Christèle Baillif-Ducros, Alistair Barclay, László Bartosiewicz, Katherine Baxter, Zsolt Bernert, Jan Blažek, Mario Bodružić, Philippe Boissinot, Clive Bonsall, Pippa Bradley, Marcus Brittain, Alison Brookes, Fraser Brown, Lisa Brown, Richard Brunning, Chelsea Budd, Josip Burmaz, Sylvain Canet, Silvia Carnicero-Cáceres, Morana Čaušević-Bully, Andrew Chamberlain, Sébastien Chauvin, Sharon Clough, Natalija Čondić, Alfredo Coppa, Oliver Craig, Matija Črešnar, Vicki Cummings, Szabolcs Czifra, Alžběta Danielisová, Robin Daniels, Alex Davies, Philip de Jersey, Jody Deacon, Csilla Deminger, Peter W. Ditchfield, Marko Dizdar, Miroslav Dobeš, Miluše Dobisíková, László Domboróczki, Gail Drinkall, Ana Đukić, Michal Ernée, Christopher Evans, Jane Evans, Manuel Fernández-Götz, Slavica Filipović, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Harry Fokkens, Chris Fowler, Allison Fox, Zsolt Gallina, Michelle Gamble, Manuel R. González Morales, Borja González-Rabanal, Adrian Green, Katalin Gyenesei, Diederick Habermehl, Tamás Hajdu, Derek Hamilton, James Harris, Chris Hayden, Joep Hendriks, Bénédicte Hernu, Gill Hey, Milan Horňák, Gábor Ilon, Eszter Istvánovits, Andy M. Jones, Martina Blečić Kavur, Kevin Kazek, Robert A. Kenyon, Amal Khreisheh, Viktória Kiss, Jos Kleijne, Mark Knight, Lisette M. Kootker, Péter F. Kovács, Anita Kozubová, Gabriella Kulcsár, Valéria Kulcsár, Christophe Le Pennec, Michael Legge, Matt Leivers, Louise Loe, Olalla López-Costas, Tom Lord, Dženi Los, James Lyall, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Philip Mason, Damir Matošević, Andy Maxted, Lauren McIntyre, Jacqueline McKinley, Kathleen McSweeney, Bernard Meijlink, Balázs G. Mende, Marko Menđušić, Milan Metlička, Sophie Meyer, Kristina Mihovilić, Lidija Milasinovic, Steve Minnitt, Joanna Moore, Geoff Morley, Graham Mullan, Margaréta Musilová, Benjamin Neil, Rebecca Nicholls, Mario Novak, Maria Pala, Martin Papworth, Cécile Paresys, Ricky Patten, Domagoj Perkić, Krisztina Pesti, Alba Petit, Katarína Petriščáková, Coline Pichon, Catriona Pickard, Zoltán Pilling, T. Douglas Price, Siniša Radović, Rebecca Redfern, Branislav Resutík, Daniel T. Rhodes, Martin B. Richards, Amy Roberts, Jean Roefstra, Pavel Sankot, Alena Šefčáková, Alison Sheridan, Sabine Skae, Miroslava Šmolíková, Krisztina Somogyi, Ágnes Somogyvári, Mark Stephens, Géza Szabó, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Tamás Szeniczey, Jonathan Tabor, Károly Tankó, Clenis Tavarez Maria, Rachel Terry, Biba Teržan, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Jesús F. Torres-Martínez, Julien Trapp, Ross Turle, Ferenc Ujvári, Menno van der Heiden, Petr Veleminsky, Barbara Veselka, Zdeněk Vytlačil, Clive Waddington, Paula Ware, Paul Wilkinson, Linda Wilson, Rob Wiseman, Eilidh Young, Joško Zaninović, Andrej Žitňan, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Peter de Knijff, Ian Barnes, Peter Halkon, Mark G. Thomas, Douglas J. Kennett, Barry Cunliffe, Malcolm Lillie, Nadin Rohland, Ron Pinhasi, Ian Armit, David Reich, European Research Council, Croatian Science Foundation, Ministry of Culture (Czech Republic), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Leverhulme Trust, Culture Vannin, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), National Institutes of Health (US), John Templeton Foundation, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Geology and Geochemistry, and Archaeology of Northwestern Europe

Subjects
Europe, Farmers, Multidisciplinary, Archaeology, Genome, Human, Britain, prehistory, genetics, language, Human Migration, Humans, Infant, France, United Kingdom, Article
Abstract

Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early European farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age1. To understand this, here we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and western and central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000 and 875 BC, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of people of England and Wales from the Iron Age, thereby creating a plausible vector for the spread of early Celtic languages into Britain. These patterns are part of a broader trend of EEF ancestry becoming more similar across central and western Europe in the Middle to the Late Bronze Age, coincident with archaeological evidence of intensified cultural exchange2-6. There was comparatively less gene flow from continental Europe during the Iron Age, and the independent genetic trajectory in Britain is also reflected in the rise of the allele conferring lactase persistence to approximately 50% by this time compared to approximately 7% in central Europe where it rose rapidly in frequency only a millennium later. This suggests that dairy products were used in qualitatively different ways in Britain and in central Europe over this period., This work was funded in part by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 834087; the COMMIOS Project to I.A.). M.N. was supported by the Croatian Science Fund grant (HRZZ IP-2016-06-1450). P.V., M.Dobeš and Z.V. were supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2019-2023/7.I.c, 00023272). M.E. was supported by Czech Academy of Sciences award Praemium Academiae. M.Dobisíková and A.Danielisová were supported by the grant RVO 67985912 of the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. M.G.B.F. was funded by The Leverhulme Trust via a Doctoral Scholarship scheme awarded to M.Pala and M.B.R. Support to M.Legge came from the South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. M.G.’s osteological analyses were funded by Culture Vannin. A.S.-N. was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. T.H., T.S. and K.K.’s work was supported by a grant from the Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office (project number: FK128013). We acknowledge support for radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analyses as well as access to skeletal material from Manx National Heritage and A. Fox. Dating analysis was funded by Leverhulme Trust grant RPG-388. M.G.T. and I.B. were supported by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award (project 100713/Z/12/Z). I.O. was supported by a Ramón y Cajal grant from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spanish Government (RYC2019-027909-I). The research directed at Harvard was funded by NIH grants GM100233 and HG012287, by John Templeton Foundation grant 61220, by a gift from Jean-François Clin, and by the Allen Discovery Center program, a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. D.R. is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Published
2021

8. A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb

Author

Chris Fowler, Iñigo Olalde, Vicki Cummings, Ian Armit, Lindsey Büster, Sarah Cuthbert, Nadin Rohland, Olivia Cheronet, Ron Pinhasi, and David Reich

Subjects
Adult, Male, Multidisciplinary, Archaeology, Burial, Humans, Mothers, Female, DNA, Ancient, Child, Article, V400, Pedigree
Abstract

To explore kinship practices at chambered tombs in Early Neolithic Britain, here we combined archaeological and genetic analyses of 35 individuals who lived about 5,700 years ago and were entombed at Hazleton North long cairn1. Twenty-seven individuals are part of the first extended pedigree reconstructed from ancient DNA, a five-generation family whose many interrelationships provide statistical power to document kinship practices that were invisible without direct genetic data. Patrilineal descent was key in determining who was buried in the tomb, as all 15 intergenerational transmissions were through men. The presence of women who had reproduced with lineage men and the absence of adult lineage daughters suggest virilocal burial and female exogamy. We demonstrate that one male progenitor reproduced with four women: the descendants of two of those women were buried in the same half of the tomb over all generations. This suggests that maternal sub-lineages were grouped into branches whose distinctiveness was recognized during the construction of the tomb. Four men descended from non-lineage fathers and mothers who also reproduced with lineage male individuals, suggesting that some men adopted the children of their reproductive partners by other men into their patriline. Eight individuals were not close biological relatives of the main lineage, raising the possibility that kinship also encompassed social bonds independent of biological relatedness.

Published
2021

9. The return of the Beaker Folk? : Rethinking migration and population change in British prehistory

Author

Ian Armit and David Reich

Subjects
Archeology, education.field_of_study, geography.geographical_feature_category, Steppe, General Arts and Humanities, Population, Prehistory, Colonisation, Geography, Social processes, Beaker, Ethnology, Population growth, education
Abstract

Recent aDNA analyses demonstrate that the centuries surrounding the arrival of the Beaker Complex in Britain witnessed a massive turnover in the genetic make-up of the island's population. The genetic data provide information both on the individuals sampled and the ancestral populations from which they derive. Here, the authors consider the archaeological implications of this genetic turnover and propose two hypotheses—Beaker Colonisation and Steppe Drift—reflecting critical differences in conceptualisations of the relationship between objects and genes. These hypotheses establish key directions for future research designed to investigate the underlying social processes involved and raise questions for wider interpretations of population change detected through aDNA analysis.

Published
2021

10. The beaker phenomenon and the Genomic transformations of Northwest Europe

Author

Matthew Ferry, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Anna Endrődi, César Heras Martínez, Balázs Gusztáv Mende, Fraser Brown, András Czene, Morten E. Allentoft, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Ian Barnes, Roberto Risch, Milan Kuchařík, Clive Waddington, Benjamin Neil, Róbert Patay, Ignacio Soriano, Jocelyne Desideri, Luc Vergnaud, Gordon Cook, Denise Keating, Francesca Candilio, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Iosif Lazaridis, Kristin Stewardson, Harry Fokkens, Virginia Galera Olmo, Tamás Hajdu, David Caramelli, Aurore Schmitt, Philippe Lefranc, Maya Hoole, Stephany Leach, Megan Michel, Alessandra Modi, Daniel Fernandes, Viktória Kiss, João Luís Cardoso, Václav Smrčka, Swapan Mallick, Zuzana Faltyskova, Wolfgang Haak, Eszter Bánffy, David Billoin, Ron Pinhasi, T. Douglas Price, Ian Armit, Michiel Gazenbeek, Piotr Włodarczak, Eadaoin Harney, Marie Besse, Tim Allen, Douglas J. Kennett, Christopher Evans, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Alessandro Zanini, Selina Brace, Manuel Ángel Rojo Guerra, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Mike Luke, Zsolt Bernert, Peter de Knijff, Richard Mortimer, Michal Ernée, Gill Hey, Emiliano Carnieri, Elżbieta Haduch, Kitti Köhler, Laura Bonsall, João Zilhão, Thomas J. Booth, Mike Parker Pearson, Germán Delibes, Yoan Diekmann, Olivier Lemercier, Iñigo Olalde, János Dani, Eveline Altena, Alistair Barclay, Ken Massy, Sebastiano Tusa, Antonella Valenti, David Reich, Jonas Oppenheimer, Nadin Rohland, Clive Bonsall, Ana Maria Silva, Pierre-Jérôme Rey, Joaquín Lomba Maurandi, Alison Sheridan, Tona Majó, Chris Fowler, Petr Velemínský, Natasha Dodwell, Luigi Lentini, Katina T. Lillios, Miroslav Dobeš, Azucena Avilés Fernández, Olivia Cheronet, Mark G. Thomas, Ana-Mercedes Herrero-Corral, María Haber-Uriarte, Maria Bernabò-Brea, Agata Hałuszko, Ana Bastida Ramírez, Concepción Blasco, Alissa Mittnik, Roberto Menduiña García, Marcus Brittain, Nick Patterson, Tamás Szeniczey, Maksym Mackiewicz, Raúl Flores Fernández, Sophie Carver, Timothy D J Knowles, Volker M Heyd, Rafael Garrido Pena, Arnaud Lefebvre, Kathleen McSweeney, Lindsey Büster, Joël Serralongue, Mirosław Furmanek, Laura Castells Navarro, Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy, Artur Rapiński, Thomas K. Harper, Corina Liesau, Kristian Kristiansen, Barry Cunliffe, Oliver E. Craig, Patricia Ríos, Gabriella Kulcsár, Joan Francès Farré, Pilar Prieto, Jorge Vega de Miguel, Johannes Krause, Saskia Pfrengle, Thomas Higham, Elisa Guerra-Doce, Anthony Denaire, Nick Jowett, Kurt W. Alt, Mark Lipson, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Günter Brücken, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona] (UPF), Egham TW20 0EX, Middlesex University, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology [Leipzig], Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Harvard School of Public Health, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (BROAD INSTITUTE), Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS)-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston], School of Archaeology [Dublin], University College Dublin [Dublin] (UCD), Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Haematology, St James' Institute of Oncology, Etude des Civilisations de l'Antiquité (UMR 7044), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Marc Bloch - Strasbourg II-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)), Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California-University of California-Shirley and Stefan Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés [Dijon] (ARTeHiS), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Institute of Archaeology [Budapest], Research Centre for The Humanities [Budapest], Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)-Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Department of Anthropology [University of Vienna], University of Vienna [Vienna], Department of Anthropology, Národní muzeum, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Laboratoire d'archéologie préhistorique et anthropologie, Université de Genève (UNIGE), Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid] (UVa), Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé (ADES), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-EFS ALPES MEDITERRANEE-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service archéologique de la Haute-Savoie, Office départemental d'animation culturelle de la Haute-Savoie, University of Minho [Braga], Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol [Bristol], Laboratorio di Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, RLAHA, National Museums of Scotland, Department of Archaeogenetics [Jena] (DAG), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, School of Archaeology, Departament de biologia animal, Universitad de barcelona, Universiteit Leiden-Universiteit Leiden, Étude des Civilisations de l'Antiquité : de la Préhistoire à Byzance (ARCHIMEDE), Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Université Marc Bloch - Strasbourg II-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)-Shirley and Stefan Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne (EDYTEM), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), National Museums Scotland (NMS), Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa, Universitat de Barcelona, Desideri, Jocelyne, and Besse, Marie

Subjects
Male, 0301 basic medicine, Steppe, ADN, Néolithique, Bell Beaker, Arqueologia, Bell Beaker culture, genome wide ancient DNA, 0302 clinical medicine, Archéologie, Phenomenon, ddc:550, 0601 history and archaeology, Suisse, History, Ancient, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, geography.geographical_feature_category, Multidisciplinary, 060102 archaeology, [SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering, Human migration, Préhistoire, Neolithic period, Gene Pool, Genomics, [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography, 06 humanities and the arts, bell Beaker, Europe, Geography, Archaeology, Ceràmica, Ethnology, Mégalithisme, Archaeogenetics, Campaniforme, Pottery, Human Migration, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Population, Ancient history, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Spatio-Temporal Analysis, popular genetics, Bronze Age, Beaker, Cultural Evolution, Neolític, genomics, Humans, DNA, Ancient, education, 030304 developmental biology, Chromosomes, Human, Y, Genome, Human, business.industry, Northwest Europe, Chalcolithic, [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society, Ancient DNA, Genetics, Population, 030104 developmental biology, Haplotypes, Period (geology), Genomic, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

Bell Beaker pottery spread across western and central Europe beginning around 2750 BCE before disappearing between 2200–1800 BCE. The mechanism of its expansion is a topic of long-standing debate, with support for both cultural diffusion and human migration. We present new genome-wide ancient DNA data from 170 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 100 Beaker-associated individuals. In contrast to the Corded Ware Complex, which has previously been identified as arriving in central Europe following migration from the east, we observe limited genetic affinity between Iberian and central European Beaker Complex-associated individuals, and thus exclude migration as a significant mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, human migration did have an important role in the further dissemination of the Beaker Complex, which we document most clearly in Britain using data from 80 newly reported individuals dating to 3900–1200 BCE. British Neolithic farmers were genetically similar to contemporary populations in continental Europe and in particular to Neolithic Iberians, suggesting that a portion of the farmer ancestry in Britain came from the Mediterranean rather than the Danubian route of farming expansion. Beginning with the Beaker period, and continuing through the Bronze Age, all British individuals harboured high proportions of Steppe ancestry and were genetically closely related to Beaker-associated individuals from the Lower Rhine area. We use these observations to show that the spread of the Beaker Complex to Britain was mediated by migration from the continent that replaced >90% of Britain’s Neolithic gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the process that brought Steppe ancestry into central and northern Europe 400 years earlier.

Published
2017

12. Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene

Author

Phil Stastney, Ian Armit, Jeffrey J. Blackford, Antony Blundell, Bettina S. Stefanini, Fraser J.G. Mitchell, Katharina Becker, Julia McCarroll, Gill Plunkett, Heidi A. Rea, T.J. Daley, Frank M. Chambers, T. Edward Turner, Jonathan A. Holmes, Peter G. Langdon, Pirita Oksanen, Oliver G. Pritchard, Ian Matthews, Matthew J. Amesbury, Jane Holmes, Ian T. Lawson, Frank McDermott, Jane V. Wheeler, Graeme T. Swindles, Thomas P. Roland, Nicholas Branch, Benjamin R. Gearey, Georg Schettler, Helen Roe, Maarten Blaauw, Dan J. Charman, and Daniel Young

Subjects
geography, Peat, geography.geographical_feature_category, Water table, Climate change, Speleothem, 550 - Earth sciences, Coherence (statistics), Climatology, SDG 13 - Climate Action, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Thermohaline circulation, Tephra, Holocene, Geology
Abstract

We examine mid- to late Holocene centennial-scale climate variability in Ireland using proxy data from peatlands, lakes and a speleothem. A high degree of between-record variability is apparent in the proxy data and significant chronological uncertainties are present. However, tephra layers provide a robust tool for correlation and improve the chronological precision of the records. Although we can find no statistically significant coherence in the dataset as a whole, a selection of high-quality peatland water table reconstructions co-vary more than would be expected by chance alone. A locally weighted regression model with bootstrapping can be used to construct a ‘best-estimate’ palaeoclimatic reconstruction from these datasets. Visual comparison and cross-wavelet analysis of peatland water table compilations from Ireland and Northern Britain shows that there are some periods of coherence between these records. Some terrestrial palaeoclimatic changes in Ireland appear to coincide with changes in the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation and solar activity. However, these relationships are inconsistent and may be obscured by chronological uncertainties. We conclude by suggesting an agenda for future Holocene climate research in Ireland.

Published
2013

13. Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe

Author

Ian Armit and Ian Armit

Subjects
Iron Age--Europe, Human remains (Archaeology)--Europe, Human body--Symbolic aspects--Europe, Headhunters--Europe, Rites and ceremonies--Europe, Violence--Europe
Abstract

Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this material has been associated with a Europe-wide'head-cult', and used to support the idea of a unified Celtic culture in prehistory. This book demonstrates instead how headhunting and head-veneration were practised across a range of diverse and fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studies from France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores the complex and subtle relationships between power, religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe.

Published
2012

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