RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 032763
DO 10.1101/032763
A1 Zuzana Hofmanová
A1 Susanne Kreutzer
A1 Garrett Hellenthal
A1 Christian Sell
A1 Yoan Diekmann
A1 David Díez-del-Molino
A1 Lucy van Dorp
A1 Saioa López
A1 Athanasios Kousathanas
A1 Vivian Link
A1 Karola Kirsanow
A1 Lara M. Cassidy
A1 Rui Martiniano
A1 Melanie Strobel
A1 Amelie Scheu
A1 Kostas Kotsakis
A1 Paul Halstead
A1 Sevi Triantaphyllou
A1 Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika
A1 Dushanka-Christina Urem-Kotsou
A1 Christina Ziota
A1 Fotini Adaktylou
A1 Shyamalika Gopalan
A1 Dean M. Bobo
A1 Laura Winkelbach
A1 Jens Blöcher
A1 Martina Unterländer
A1 Christoph Leuenberger
A1 Çiler Çilingiroğlu
A1 Barbara Horejs
A1 Fokke Gerritsen
A1 Stephen Shennan
A1 Daniel G. Bradley
A1 Mathias Currat
A1 Krishna R. Veeramah
A1 Daniel Wegmann
A1 Mark G. Thomas
A1 Christina Papageorgopoulou
A1 Joachim Burger
YR 2015
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/25/032763.abstract
AB Farming and sedentism first appear in southwest 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 Neolithisation of Europe. Here we present paleogenomic data for five Neolithic individuals from northwestern Turkey and northern Greece – spanning the time and region of the earliest spread of farming into Europe. We 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.