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Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia

Feldman, Michal; Fernández-Domínguez, Eva; Reynolds, Luke; Baird, Douglas; Pearson, Jessica; Hershkovitz, Israel; May, Hila; Goring-Morris, Nigel; Benz, Marion; Gresky, Julia; Bianco, Raffaela A.; Fairbairn, Andrew; Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan; Stockhammer, Philipp W.; Posth, Cosimo; Haak, Wolfgang; Jeong, Choongwon; Krause, Johannes

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Authors

Michal Feldman

Luke Reynolds

Douglas Baird

Jessica Pearson

Israel Hershkovitz

Hila May

Nigel Goring-Morris

Marion Benz

Julia Gresky

Raffaela A. Bianco

Andrew Fairbairn

Gökhan Mustafaoğlu

Philipp W. Stockhammer

Cosimo Posth

Wolfgang Haak

Choongwon Jeong

Johannes Krause



Abstract

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-gatherers 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. Our results suggest a limited role of human migration in the emergence of agriculture in central Anatolia.

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Feldman, M., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Reynolds, L., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Hershkovitz, I., …Krause, J. (2019). Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature Communications, 10, Article 1218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 15, 2019
Online Publication Date Mar 19, 2019
Publication Date Mar 31, 2019
Deposit Date Jan 22, 2019
Publicly Available Date Apr 2, 2019
Journal Nature Communications
Publisher Nature Research
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 10
Article Number 1218
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7

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