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Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia

Michal Feldman, Eva Fernández-Domínguez, Luke Reynolds, Douglas Baird, Jessica Pearson, Israel Hershkovitz, Hila May, Nigel Goring-Morris, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Raffaela A. Bianco, Andrew Fairbairn, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Cosimo Posth, Wolfgang Haak, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/422295
Michal Feldman
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Jena, Germany.
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Eva Fernández-Domínguez
2Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.
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  • For correspondence: eva.fernandez@durham.ac.uk jeong@shh.mpg.de krause@shh.mpg.de
Luke Reynolds
3School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, Byrom Street, L3 3AF, United Kingdom.
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Douglas Baird
4Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, 8-14 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool, L69 7WZ, United Kingdom.
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Jessica Pearson
4Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, 8-14 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool, L69 7WZ, United Kingdom.
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Israel Hershkovitz
5Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, The Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research and The Shmunis Family Anthropology Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Post Office Box 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
6The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Post Office Box 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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Hila May
5Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, The Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research and The Shmunis Family Anthropology Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Post Office Box 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
6The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Post Office Box 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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Nigel Goring-Morris
7Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91955, Israel.
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Marion Benz
8Department of Near Eastern Archaeology, Free University Berlin, Fabeckstrasse 23-25, 14195 Berlin.
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Julia Gresky
9Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Raffaela A. Bianco
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Jena, Germany.
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Andrew Fairbairn
10School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Michie Building, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Gökhan Mustafaoğlu
11Department of Archaeology, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, 67100 Incivez, Zonguldak, Turkey.
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Philipp W. Stockhammer
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Jena, Germany.
12Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München, Schellingstrasse 12, D-80799, Germany.
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Cosimo Posth
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Jena, Germany.
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Wolfgang Haak
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Jena, Germany.
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Choongwon Jeong
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Jena, Germany.
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  • For correspondence: eva.fernandez@durham.ac.uk jeong@shh.mpg.de krause@shh.mpg.de
Johannes Krause
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Jena, Germany.
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  • For correspondence: eva.fernandez@durham.ac.uk jeong@shh.mpg.de krause@shh.mpg.de
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Abstract

Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. We find high genetic continuity (∼80-90%) between the hunter-gatherer and early farmers of Anatolia and detect two distinct incoming ancestries: an early Iranian/Caucasus related one and a later one linked to the ancient Levant. Finally, we observe a genetic link between southern Europe and the Near East predating 15,000 years ago that extends to central Europe during the post-last-glacial maximum period. Our results suggest a limited role of human migration in the emergence of agriculture in central Anatolia.

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Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
Michal Feldman, Eva Fernández-Domínguez, Luke Reynolds, Douglas Baird, Jessica Pearson, Israel Hershkovitz, Hila May, Nigel Goring-Morris, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Raffaela A. Bianco, Andrew Fairbairn, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Cosimo Posth, Wolfgang Haak, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause
bioRxiv 422295; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/422295
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Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
Michal Feldman, Eva Fernández-Domínguez, Luke Reynolds, Douglas Baird, Jessica Pearson, Israel Hershkovitz, Hila May, Nigel Goring-Morris, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Raffaela A. Bianco, Andrew Fairbairn, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Cosimo Posth, Wolfgang Haak, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause
bioRxiv 422295; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/422295

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