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Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans
- Source :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 113, No 25 (2016) pp. 6886-6891, Hofmanová, Z, Kreutzer, S, Hellenthal, G, Sell, C, Diekmann, Y, Díez-del-Molino, D, Gerritsen, F A, Shennan, S, Thomas, M, Burger, J & Papageorgopoulou, C 2016, ' Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 113, no. 25, pp. 6886-6891 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523951113, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(25), 6886-6891. National Acad Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- WOS: 000378272400038<br />PubMed ID: 27274049<br />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.<br />Marie Curie Initial Training Network (BEAN/Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic) [GA 289966]; DFGGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [BU 1403/6-1, BO 4119/1]; Alexander von Humboldt FoundationAlexander von Humboldt Foundation; European Union (EU) SYNTHESYS/Synthesis of Systematic Resources [GA 226506-CP-CSA-INFRA]; VolkswagenstiftungVolkswagen [FKZ: 87161]; Irish Research CouncilIrish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology [GOIPG/2013/1219]; EU CodeX Project [295729]; EU Social Fund; Greek national funds research funding program THALES; Greek national funds research funding program ARISTEIA II; Swiss NSFSwiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [31003A_156853, 31003A_149920]; BBSRCBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/L009382/1]; CoMPLEX via EPSRC [EP/F500351/1]; Sir Henry Dale Fellowship - Wellcome Trust [098386/Z/12/Z]; Sir Henry Dale Fellowship - Royal Society [098386/Z/12/Z]; National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre; Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust [100719/Z/12/Z]; University of Mainz; HPC cluster MOGON - DFG [INST 247/602-1 FUGG]; Netherlands Organization for Scientific ResearchNetherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [380-62-005]; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/L009382/1]; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEngineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [1357822]<br />We thank Songul Alpaslan for help with sampling in Barcin and Eleni Stravopodi for help with sampling in Theopetra. Z.H. and R.M. are supported by a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (BEAN/Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic, GA 289966) awarded to M.C., S.J.S., D.G.B., M.G.T., and J. Burger. C.P., J. Burger and S.K. received funding from DFG (BU 1403/6-1). C.P. and J. Burger received funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. C.S. and M.S. were supported by the European Union (EU) SYNTHESYS/Synthesis of Systematic Resources GA 226506-CP-CSA-INFRA, DFG: (BO 4119/1) and Volkswagenstiftung (FKZ: 87161). L.M.C. is funded by the Irish Research Council (GOIPG/2013/1219). A.S. was supported by the EU CodeX Project 295729. K. Kotsakis, S.T., D.U.-K., P.H., and C.P. were cofinanced by the EU Social Fund and Greek national funds research funding program THALES. C.P., M.U., K. Kotsakis, S.T., and D.U.-K. were cofinanced by the EU Social Fund and the Greek national funds research funding program ARISTEIA II. M.C. was supported by Swiss NSF Grant 31003A_156853. A. K. and D.W. were supported by Swiss NSF Grant 31003A_149920. S.L. is supported by the BBSRC (Grant BB/L009382/1). L.v.D. is supported by CoMPLEX via EPSRC (Grant EP/F500351/1). G.H. is supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (Grant 098386/Z/12/Z) and by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. M.G.T. and Y.D. are supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship Grant 100719/Z/12/Z (to M.G.T.). J. Burger is grateful for support by the University of Mainz and the HPC cluster MOGON (funded by DFG; INST 247/602-1 FUGG). F.G. was supported by Grant 380-62-005 of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Mediterranean climate
Population
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Genetic similarity
ddc:590
Humans
0601 history and archaeology
Anatolia
Neolithic
education
QH426
Holocene
Mesolithic
030304 developmental biology
2. Zero hunger
Principal Component Analysis
0303 health sciences
education.field_of_study
Multidisciplinary
060102 archaeology
Greece
Mediterranean Region
Ecology
business.industry
Sedentism
Agriculture
06 humanities and the arts
Biological Sciences
CC
CB
Europe
paleogenomics
Genetics, Population
030104 developmental biology
Geography
Ancient DNA
Paleogenomics
Anthropology
Biological dispersal
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00278424
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 113, No 25 (2016) pp. 6886-6891, Hofmanová, Z, Kreutzer, S, Hellenthal, G, Sell, C, Diekmann, Y, Díez-del-Molino, D, Gerritsen, F A, Shennan, S, Thomas, M, Burger, J & Papageorgopoulou, C 2016, ' Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 113, no. 25, pp. 6886-6891 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523951113, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(25), 6886-6891. National Acad Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa951ea05d1e2a1bd56718ea738935c0