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Late Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Central Mediterranean: new archaeological and genetic data from the Late Epigravettian burial Oriente C (Favignana, Sicily)

View ORCID ProfileGiulio Catalano, View ORCID ProfileDomenico Lo Vetro, View ORCID ProfilePier Francesco Fabbri, View ORCID ProfileSwapan Mallick, View ORCID ProfileDavid Reich, View ORCID ProfileNadin Rohland, View ORCID ProfileLuca Sineo, Iain Mathieson, View ORCID ProfileFabio Martini
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/692871
Giulio Catalano
1Dipartimento di Scienze e tecnologie biologiche, chimiche e farmaceutiche, Università degli studi di Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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Domenico Lo Vetro
2Dipartimento SAGAS – Unità di Archeologia Preistorica, Università di Firenze, Firenze 50121, Italy
3Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria, Firenze 50122, Italy
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Pier Francesco Fabbri
4Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
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Swapan Mallick
5Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
6Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
7Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02442, USA
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David Reich
5Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
6Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
7Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02442, USA
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Nadin Rohland
5Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Luca Sineo
1Dipartimento di Scienze e tecnologie biologiche, chimiche e farmaceutiche, Università degli studi di Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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Iain Mathieson
8Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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Fabio Martini
2Dipartimento SAGAS – Unità di Archeologia Preistorica, Università di Firenze, Firenze 50121, Italy
3Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria, Firenze 50122, Italy
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Abstract

Grotta d’Oriente, a small coastal cave located on the island of Favignana (Sicily, Italy) is a key site for the study of the early human colonization of Sicily. The individual known as Oriente C was found in the lower portion of an anthropogenic deposit containing typical local Late Upper Palaeolithic (Late Epigravettian) stone assemblages. Two radiocarbon dates on charcoal from the deposit containing the burial are consistent with the archaeological context and refer Oriente C to a period spanning about 14,200-13,800 cal. BP. Anatomical features are close to those of Late Upper Palaeolithic populations of the Mediterranean and show strong affinity with Palaeolithic individuals of San Teodoro. Here we present new ancient DNA data from Oriente C. Our results, confirming previous genetic analysis, suggest a substantial genetic homogeneity among Late Epigravettian hunter-gatherer populations of Central Mediterranean, presumably as a consequence of continuous gene flow among different groups, or a range expansion following the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).

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Late Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Central Mediterranean: new archaeological and genetic data from the Late Epigravettian burial Oriente C (Favignana, Sicily)
Giulio Catalano, Domenico Lo Vetro, Pier Francesco Fabbri, Swapan Mallick, David Reich, Nadin Rohland, Luca Sineo, Iain Mathieson, Fabio Martini
bioRxiv 692871; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/692871
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Late Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Central Mediterranean: new archaeological and genetic data from the Late Epigravettian burial Oriente C (Favignana, Sicily)
Giulio Catalano, Domenico Lo Vetro, Pier Francesco Fabbri, Swapan Mallick, David Reich, Nadin Rohland, Luca Sineo, Iain Mathieson, Fabio Martini
bioRxiv 692871; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/692871

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