@article {Sz{\'e}cs{\'e}nyi-Nagy106963, author = {Anna Sz{\'e}cs{\'e}nyi-Nagy and Christina Roth and Guido Brandt and Cristina Rihuete-Herrada and Cristina Tejedor-Rodr{\'\i}guez and Petra Held and {\'I}{\~n}igo Garc{\'\i}a-Mart{\'\i}nez-de-Lagr{\'a}n and H{\'e}ctor Arcusa Magall{\'o}n and Stephanie Zesch and Corina Knipper and Eszter B{\'a}nffy and Susanne Friederich and Harald Meller and Primitiva Bueno Ram{\'\i}rez and Rosa Barroso Bermejo and Rodrigo de Balb{\'\i}n Behrmann and Ana M. Herrero-Corral and Ra{\'u}l Flores Fern{\'a}ndez and Carmen Alonso Fern{\'a}ndez and Javier Jim{\'e}nez Echevarria and Laura Rindlisbacher and Camila Oliart and Mar{\'\i}a-In{\'e}s Fregeiro and Ignacio Soriano and Oriol Vicente and Rafael Mic{\'o} and Vicente Lull and Jorge Soler D{\'\i}az and Juan Antonio L{\'o}pez Padilla and Consuelo Roca de Togores Mu{\~n}oz and Mauro S. Hern{\'a}ndez P{\'e}rez and Francisco Javier Jover Maestre and Joaqu{\'\i}n Lomba Maurandi and Azucena Avil{\'e}s Fern{\'a}ndez and Katina T. Lillios and Ana Maria Silva and Miguel Magalh{\~a}es Ramalho and Luiz Miguel Oosterbeek and Claudia Cunha and Anna J. Waterman and Jordi Roig Bux{\'o} and Andr{\'e}s Mart{\'\i}nez and Juana Ponce Mart{\'\i}nez and Mark Hunt Ortiz and Juan Carlos Mej{\'\i}as-Garc{\'\i}a and Juan Carlos Pecero Esp{\'\i}n and Rosario Cruz-Au{\~n}{\'o}n Briones and Tiago Tom{\'e} and Eduardo Carmona Ballestero and Jo{\~a}o Lu{\'\i}s Cardoso and Ana Cristina Ara{\'u}jo and Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck and Concepci{\'o}n Blasco Bosqued and Patricia R{\'\i}os Mendoza and Ana Pujante and Jos{\'e} I. Royo-Guill{\'e}n and Marco Aurelio Esquembre Bevi{\'a} and Victor Manuel Dos Santos Goncalves and Rui Parreira and Elena Mor{\'a}n Hern{\'a}ndez and Elena M{\'e}ndez Izquierdo and Jorge Vega de Miguel and Roberto Mendui{\~n}a Garc{\'\i}a and Victoria Mart{\'\i}nez Calvo and Oscar L{\'o}pez Jim{\'e}nez and Johannes Krause and Sandra L. Pichler and Rafael Garrido-Pena and Michael Kunst and Roberto Risch and Manuel A. Rojo-Guerra and Wolfgang Haak and Kurt W. Alt}, title = {The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age}, elocation-id = {106963}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.1101/106963}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focused on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500-3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~ 3000-2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200-1500 BCE). We report ancient mitochondrial DNA results of 213 individuals (151 HVS-I sequences) from the northeast, middle Ebro Valley, central, southeast and southwest regions and thus on the largest archaeogenetic dataset from the Peninsula to date. Similar to other parts of Europe, we observe a discontinuity between hunter-gatherers and the first farmers of the Neolithic, however the genetic contribution of hunter-gatherers is generally higher and varies regionally, being most pronounced in the inland middle Ebro Valley and in southwest Iberia. During the subsequent periods, we detect regional continuity of Early Neolithic lineages across Iberia, parallel to an increase of hunter-gatherer genetic ancestry. In contrast to ancient DNA findings from Central Europe, we do not observe a major turnover in the mtDNA record of the Iberian Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, suggesting that the population history of the Iberian Peninsula is distinct in character.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/10/106963}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/10/106963.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }