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    The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-02-05) Lazaridis, Iosif; Olalde, Iñigo; Khokhlov, Alexander A.; Kitov, Egor P.; Shishlina, Natalia I.; Ailincăi, Sorin C.; Agapov, Danila S.; Agapov, Sergey A.; Batieva, Elena; Bauyrzhan, Baitanayev; Bereczki, Zsolt; Buzhilova, Alexandra; Changmai, Piya; Chizhevsky, Andrey A.; Ciobanu, Ion; Constantinescu, Mihai; Csányi, Marietta; Dani, János; Dashkovskiy, Peter K.; Évinger, Sándor; Faifert, Anatoly; Flegontov, Pavel; Frînculeasa, Alin; Frînculeasa, Mădălina N.; Hajdu, Tamás; Higham, Tom; Jarosz, Paweł; Jelínek, Pavol; Khartanovich, Valeri I.; Kirginekov, Eduard N.; Kiss, Viktória; Kitova, Alexandera; Kiyashko, Alexeiy V.; Koledin, Jovan; Korolev, Arkady; Kosintsev, Pavel; Kulcsár, Gabriella; Kuznetsov, Pavel; Magomedov, Rabadan; Mamedov, Aslan M.; Melis, Eszter; Moiseyev, Vyacheslav; Molnár, Erika; Monge, Janet; Negrea, Octav; Nikolaeva, Nadezhda A.; Novak, Mario; Ochir-Goryaeva, Maria; Pálfi, György; Popovici, Sergiu; Rykun, Marina P.; Savenkova, Tatyana M.; Semibratov, Vladimir P.; Seregin, Nikolai N.; Šefčáková, Alena; Mussayeva, Raikhan S.; Shingiray, Irina; Shirokov, Vladimir N.; Simalcsik, Angela; Sirak, Kendra; Solodovnikov, Konstantin N.; Tárnoki, Judit; Tishkin, Alexey A.; Trifonov, Viktor; Vasilyev, Sergey; Candilio, Francesca; Cheronet, Olivia; Flegontova, Olga; Keating, Denise; Lawson, Ann Marie; Oppenheimer, Jonas; Qiu, Lijun; Workman, J. Noah; Zalzala, Fatma; Szécsényi-Nagy, Anna; Palamara, Pier Francesco; Mallick, Swapan; Rohland, Nadin; Pinhasi, Ron; Anthony, David; Vyazov, Leonid; Fournier, Romain; Ringbauer, Harald; Akbari, Ali; Brielle, Esther; Callan, Kimberly; Curtis, Elizabeth; Iliev, Lora; Kearns, Aisling; Mah, Matthew; Micco, Adam; Michel, Megan; Reich, David
    The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300 BCE across the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000 BCE reached its maximal extent from Hungary in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. To localize Yamnaya origins among preceding Eneolithic people, we assembled ancient DNA from 428 individuals, demonstrating three genetic clines. A “Caucasus-Lower Volga” (CLV) Cline suffused with Caucasus hunter-gatherer1 ancestry extended between a Caucasus Neolithic southern end, and a northern end at Berezhnovka along the Lower Volga river. Bidirectional gene flow created intermediate populations, such as north Caucasus Maikop people, and those at Remontnoye on the steppe. The “Volga Cline” was formed as CLV people mixed with upriver populations of Eastern hunter-gatherer2 ancestry, creating hyper-variable groups as at Khvalynsk. The “Dnipro Cline” was formed as CLV people moved west, mixing with Ukraine Neolithic hunter-gatherers3 along the Dnipro river to establish Serednii Stih groups from whom Yamnaya ancestors formed around 4000 BCE and grew explosively after 3750-3350 BCE. CLV people contributed four-fifths of the ancestry of the Yamnaya, and, entering Anatolia likely from the east, at least a tenth of the ancestry of Bronze Age Central Anatolians, where Hittite was spoken4,5. We thus propose that the final unity of the speakers of “Proto-Indo-Anatolian”, the language ancestral to both Anatolian and Indo-European, was among CLV people sometime between 4400-4000 BCE.
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    Parallel paleogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers
    (2017) Lipson, Mark; Szécsényi-Nagy, Anna; Mallick, Swapan; Pósa, Annamária; Stégmár, Balázs; Keerl, Victoria; Rohland-Pinello, Nadin; Stewardson, Kristin; Ferry, Matthew; Michel, Megan; Oppenheimer, Jonas; Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen; Harney, Eadaoin; Nordenfelt, Susanne; Llamas, Bastien; Mende, Balázs Gusztáv; Köhler, Kitti; Oross, Krisztián; Bondár, Mária; Marton, Tibor; Osztás, Anett; Jakucs, János; Paluch, Tibor; Horváth, Ferenc; Csengeri, Piroska; Koós, Judit; Sebők, Katalin; Anders, Alexandra; Raczky, Pál; Regenye, Judit; Barna, Judit P.; Fábián, Szilvia; Serlegi, Gábor; Toldi, Zoltán; Nagy, Emese Gyöngyvér; Dani, János; Molnár, Erika; Pálfi, György; Márk, László; Melegh, Béla; Bánfai, Zsolt; Domboróczki, László; Fernández-Eraso, Javier; Mujika-Alustiza, José Antonio; Fernández, Carmen Alonso; Echevarría, Javier Jiménez; Bollongino, Ruth; Orschiedt, Jörg; Schierhold, Kerstin; Meller, Harald; Cooper, Alan; Burger, Joachim; Bánffy, Eszter; Alt, Kurt W.; Lalueza-Fox, Carles; Haak, Wolfgang; Reich, David
    Ancient DNA studies have established that Neolithic European populations were descended from Anatolian migrants1–8 who received a limited amount of admixture from resident hunter-gatherers3–5,9. Many open questions remain, however, about the spatial and temporal dynamics of population interactions and admixture during the Neolithic period. Using the highest-resolution genome-wide ancient DNA data set assembled to date—a total of 180 samples, 130 newly reported here, from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Hungary (6000–2900 BCE, n = 100), Germany (5500–3000 BCE, n = 42), and Spain (5500–2200 BCE, n = 38)—we investigate the population dynamics of Neolithization across Europe. We find that genetic diversity was shaped predominantly by local processes, with varied sources and proportions of hunter-gatherer ancestry among the three regions and through time. Admixture between groups with different ancestry profiles was pervasive and resulted in observable population transformation across almost all cultural transitions. Our results shed new light on the ways that gene flow reshaped European populations throughout the Neolithic period and demonstrate the potential of time-series-based sampling and modeling approaches to elucidate multiple dimensions of historical population interactions.
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    Large-Scale Migration into Britain During the Middle to Late Bronze Age
    (SpringerNature, 2021-12-22) Patterson, Nicholas; Isakov, Michael; Booth, Thomas; Büster, Lindsey; Fischer, Claire-Elise; Olalde, Inigo; Ringbauer, Harald; Akbari, Ali; Cheronet, Olivia; Bleasdale, Madeleine; Adamski, Nicole; Altena, Eveline; Bernardos, Rebecca; Brace, Selina; Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen; Callan, Kimberly; Candilio, Francesca; Culleton, Brendan; Curtis, Elizabeth; Demetz, Lea; Carlson, Kellie; Edwards, C.; Fernandes, Daniel M.; Foody, M. George B.; Freilich, Suzanne; Goodchild, Helen; Kearns, Aisling; Lawson, Ann Marie; Lazaridis, Iosif; Mah, Matthew; Mallick, Swapan; Mandl, Kirsten; Micco, Adam; Michel, Megan; Morante, Guillermo Bravo; Oppenheimer, Jonas; Özdoğan, Kadir Toykan; Qiu, Lijun; Schattke, Constanze; Stewardson, Kristin; Workman, James; Zalzala, Fatma; Zhang, Zhao; Agustí, Bibiana; Allen, Tim; Almássy, Katalin; Amkreutz, Luc; Ash, Abigail; Baillif-Ducros, Christèle; Barclay, Alistair; Bartosiewicz, László; Baxter, Katherine; Bernert, Zsolt; Blažek, Jan; Bodružić, Mario; Boissinot, Philippe; Bonsall, Clive; Bradley, Pippa; Brittain, Marcus; Brookes, Alison; Brown, Fraser; Brown, Lisa; Budd, Chelsea; Burmaz, Josip; Canet, Sylvain; Carnicero-Cáceres, Silvia; Čaušević-Bully, Morana; Chamberlain, Andrew; Chauvin, Sébastien; Clough, Sharon; Čondić, Natalija; Coppa, Alfredo; Craig, Oliver; Črešnar, Matija; Cummings, Vicki; Czifra, Szabolcs; Danielisová, Alžběta; Daniels, Robin; Davies, Alex; de Jersey, Philip; Deacon, Jody; Deminger, Csilla; Ditchfield, Peter W.; Dizdar, Marko; Dobeš, Miroslav; Dobisíková, Miluše; Domboróczki, László; Drinkall, Gail; Đukić, Ana; Ernée, Michal; Evans, Christopher; Evans, Jane; Fernández-Götz, Manuel; Filipović, Slavica; Fitzpatrick, Andrew; Fokkens, Harry; Fowler, Chris; Fox, Allison; Gallina, Zsolt; Gamble, Michelle; González Morales, Manuel R.; González-Rabanal, Borja; Green, Adrian; Gyenesei, Katalin; Habermehl, Diederick; Hajdu, Tamás; Hamilton, Derek; Harris, James; Hayden, Chris; Hendriks, Joep; Hernu, Bénédicte; Hey, Gill; Horňák, Milan; Ilon, Gábor; Istvánovits, Eszter; Jones, Andy M.; Blečić Kavur, Martina; Kazek, Kevin; Kenyon, Robert A.; Khreisheh, Amal; Kiss, Viktória; Kleijne, Jos; Knight, Mark; Kootker, Lisette M.; Kovács, Péter F.; Kozubová, Anita; Kulcsár, Gabriella; Kulcsár, Valéria; Le Pennec, Christophe; Legge, Michael; Leivers, Matt; Loe, Louise; López-Costas, Olalla; Lord, Tom; Los, Dženi; Lyall, James; Marín-Arroyo, Ana B.; Mason, Philip; Matošević, Damir; Maxted, Andy; McIntyre, Lauren; McKinley, Jacqueline; McSweeney, Kathleen; Meijlink, Bernard; Mende, Balázs G.; Menđušić, Marko; Metlička, Milan; Meyer, Sophie; Mihovilić, Kristina; Milasinovic, Lidija; Minnitt, Steve; Moore, Joanna; Morley, Geoff; Mullan, Graham; Musilová, Margaréta; Neil, Benjamin; Nicholls, Rebecca; Novak, Mario; Pala, Maria; Papworth, Martin; Paresys, Cécile; Patten, Ricky; Perkić, Domagoj; Pesti, Krisztina; Petit, Alba; Petriščáková, Katarína; Pichon, Coline; Pickard, Catriona; Pilling, Zoltán; Price, T. Douglas; Radović, Siniša; Redfern, Rebecca; Resutík, Branislav; Rhodes, Daniel T.; Richards, Martin B.; Roberts, Amy; Roefstra, Jean; Sankot, Pavel; Šefčáková, Alena; Sheridan, Alison; Skae, Sabine; Šmolíková, Miroslava; Somogyi, Krisztina; Somogyvári, Ágnes; Stephens, Mark; Szabó, Géza; Szécsényi-Nagy, Anna; Szeniczey, Tamás; Tabor, Jonathan; Tankó, Károly; Tavarez Maria, Clenis; Terry, Rachel; Teržan, Biba; Teschler-Nicola, Maria; Torres-Martínez, Jesús F.; Trapp, Julien; Turle, Ross; Ujvári, Ferenc; van der Heiden, Menno; Veleminsky, Petr; Veselka, Barbara; Vytlačil, Zdeněk; Waddington, Clive; Ware, Paula; Wilkinson, Paul; Wilson, Linda; Wiseman, Rob; Young, Eilidh; Zaninović, Joško; Žitňan, Andrej; Lalueza-Fox, Carles; de Knijff, Peter; Barnes, Ian; Halkon, Peter; Thomas, Mark G.; Kennett, Douglas J.; Cunliffe, Barry; Lillie, Malcolm; Rohland-Pinello, Nadin; Pinhasi, Ron; Armit, Ian; Reich, David
    Present-day people from England and Wales harbour more ancestry derived from Early European Farmers (EEF) than people of the Early Bronze Age1. To understand this, we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to Late Bronze and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and Western and Central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000-875 BCE, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of Iron Age people of England and Wales, thereby creating a plausible vector for the spread of early Celtic languages into Britain. These patterns are part of a broader trend of EEF ancestry becoming more similar across Central and Western Europe in the Middle to Late Bronze Age, coincident with archaeological evidence of intensified cultural exchange2-6. There was comparatively less gene flow from continental Europe during the Iron Age, and Britain’s independent genetic trajectory is also reflected in the rise of the allele conferring lactase persistence to ~50% by this time compared to ~7% in Central Europe where it rose rapidly in frequency only a millennium later. This suggests that dairy products were used in qualitatively different ways in Britain and in Central Europe over this period.