PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Michal Feldman
AU  - Eva Fernández-Domínguez
AU  - Luke Reynolds
AU  - Douglas Baird
AU  - Jessica Pearson
AU  - Israel Hershkovitz
AU  - Hila May
AU  - Nigel Goring-Morris
AU  - Marion Benz
AU  - Julia Gresky
AU  - Raffaela A. Bianco
AU  - Andrew Fairbairn
AU  - Gökhan Mustafaoğlu
AU  - Philipp W. Stockhammer
AU  - Cosimo Posth
AU  - Wolfgang Haak
AU  - Choongwon Jeong
AU  - Johannes Krause
TI  - Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
AID  - 10.1101/422295
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 422295
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/20/422295.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/20/422295.full
AB  - 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.