Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East
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Nadel, Dani
Rollefson, Gary
Merrett, Deborah C.
Rohland, Nadin
Fernandes, Daniel
Novak, Mario
Gamarra, Beatriz
Sirak, Kendra
Connell, Sarah
Fu, Qiaomei
Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria
Jones, Eppie R.
Roodenberg, Songül Alpaslan
Lengyel, György
Bocquentin, Fanny
Gasparian, Boris
Monge, Janet M.
Gregg, Michael
Eshed, Vered
Mizrahi, Ahuva-Sivan
Meiklejohn, Christopher
Gerritsen, Fokke
Bejenaru, Luminita
Blüher, Matthias
Campbell, Archie
Cavalleri, Gianpiero
Comas, David
Froguel, Philippe
Gilbert, Edmund
Kerr, Shona M.
Kovacs, Peter
Krause, Johannes
McGettigan, Darren
Merrigan, Michael
Merriwether, D. Andrew
O'Reilly, Seamus
Richards, Martin B.
Semino, Ornella
Shamoon-Pour, Michel
Stefanescu, Gheorghe
Stumvoll, Michael
Tönjes, Anke
Torroni, Antonio
Wilson, James F.
Yengo, Loic
Hovhannisyan, Nelli A.
Patterson, Nick
Pinhasi, Ron
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Lazaridis, I., D. Nadel, G. Rollefson, D. C. Merrett, N. Rohland, S. Mallick, D. Fernandes, et al. 2016. “Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East.” Nature 536 (7617): 419-424. doi:10.1038/nature19310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19310.Abstract
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 44 ancient Near Easterners ranging in time between ~12,000-1,400 BCE, from Natufian hunter-gatherers to Bronze Age farmers. We show that the earliest populations of the Near East derived around half their ancestry from a ‘Basal Eurasian’ lineage that had little if any Neanderthal admixture and that separated from other non-African lineages prior to their separation from each other. The first farmers of the southern Levant (Israel and Jordan) and Zagros Mountains (Iran) were strongly genetically differentiated, and each descended from local hunter-gatherers. By the time of the Bronze Age, these two populations and Anatolian-related farmers had mixed with each other and with the hunter-gatherers of Europe to drastically reduce genetic differentiation. The impact of the Near Eastern farmers extended beyond the Near East: farmers related to those of Anatolia spread westward into Europe; farmers related to those of the Levant spread southward into East Africa; farmers related to those from Iran spread northward into the Eurasian steppe; and people related to both the early farmers of Iran and to the pastoralists of the Eurasian steppe spread eastward into South Asia.Other Sources
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