RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Genomic History Of Southeastern Europe
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 135616
DO 10.1101/135616
A1 Iain Mathieson
A1 Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg
A1 Cosimo Posth
A1 Anna Szécsényi-Nagy
A1 Nadin Rohland
A1 Swapan Mallick
A1 Iñigo Olade
A1 Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht
A1 Olivia Cheronet
A1 Daniel Fernandes
A1 Matthew Ferry
A1 Beatriz Gamarra
A1 Gloria González Fortes
A1 Wolfgang Haak
A1 Eadaoin Harney
A1 Ben Krause-Kyora
A1 Isil Kucukkalipci
A1 Megan Michel
A1 Alissa Mittnik
A1 Kathrin Nägele
A1 Mario Novak
A1 Jonas Oppenheimer
A1 Nick Patterson
A1 Saskia Pfrengle
A1 Kendra Sirak
A1 Kristin Stewardson
A1 Stefania Vai
A1 Stefan Alexandrov
A1 Kurt W. Alt
A1 Radian Andreescu
A1 Dragana Antonović
A1 Abigail Ash
A1 Nadezhda Atanassova
A1 Krum Bacvarov
A1 Mende Balázs Gusztáv
A1 Hervé Bocherens
A1 Michael Bolus
A1 Adina Boroneanţ
A1 Yavor Boyadzhiev
A1 Alicja Budnik
A1 Josip Burmaz
A1 Stefan Chohadzhiev
A1 Nicholas J. Conard
A1 Richard Cottiaux
A1 Maja Čuka
A1 Christophe Cupillard
A1 Dorothée G. Drucker
A1 Nedko Elenski
A1 Michael Francken
A1 Borislava Galabova
A1 Georgi Ganetovski
A1 Bernard Gely
A1 Tamás Hajdu
A1 Veneta Handzhyiska
A1 Katerina Harvati
A1 Thomas Higham
A1 Stanislav Iliev
A1 Ivor Janković
A1 Ivor Karavanić
A1 Douglas J. Kennett
A1 Darko Komšo
A1 Alexandra Kozak
A1 Damian Labuda
A1 Martina Lari
A1 Catalin Lazar
A1 Maleen Leppek
A1 Krassimir Leshtakov
A1 Domenico Lo Vetro
A1 Dženi Los
A1 Ivaylo Lozanov
A1 Maria Malina
A1 Fabio Martini
A1 Kath McSweeney
A1 Harald Meller
A1 Marko Menđušić
A1 Pavel Mirea
A1 Vyacheslav Moiseyev
A1 Vanya Petrova
A1 T. Douglas Price
A1 Angela Simalcsik
A1 Luca Sineo
A1 Mario Šlaus
A1 Vladimir Slavchev
A1 Petar Stanev
A1 Andrej Starović
A1 Tamás Szeniczey
A1 Sahra Talamo
A1 Maria Teschler-Nicola
A1 Corinne Thevenet
A1 Ivan Valchev
A1 Frédérique Valentin
A1 Sergey Vasilyev
A1 Fanica Veljanovska
A1 Svetlana Venelinova
A1 Elizaveta Veselovskaya
A1 Bence Viola
A1 Cristian Virag
A1 Joško Zaninović
A1 Steve Zauner
A1 Philipp W. Stockhammer
A1 Giulio Catalano
A1 Raiko Krauβ
A1 David Caramelli
A1 Gunita Zariņa
A1 Bisserka Gaydarska
A1 Malcolm Lillie
A1 Alexey G. Nikitin
A1 Inna Potekhina
A1 Anastasia Papathanasiou
A1 Dušan Borić
A1 Clive Bonsall
A1 Johannes Krause
A1 Ron Pinhasi
A1 David Reich
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/09/135616.abstract
AB Farming was first introduced to southeastern Europe in the mid-7th millennium BCE– brought by migrants from Anatolia who settled in the region before spreading throughout Europe. However, the dynamics of the interaction between the first farmers and the indigenous hunter-gatherers remain poorly understood because of the near absence of ancient DNA from the region. We report new genome-wide ancient DNA data from 204 individuals–65 Paleolithic and Mesolithic, 93 Neolithic, and 46 Copper, Bronze and Iron Age–who lived in southeastern Europe and surrounding regions between about 12,000 and 500 BCE. We document that the hunter-gatherer populations of southeastern Europe, the Baltic, and the North Pontic Steppe were distinctive from those of western Europe, with a West-East cline of ancestry. We show that the people who brought farming to Europe were not part of a single population, as early farmers from southern Greece are not descended from the Neolithic population of northwestern Anatolia that was ancestral to all other European farmers. The ancestors of the first farmers of northern and western Europe passed through southeastern Europe with limited admixture with local hunter-gatherers, but we show that some groups that remained in the region mixed extensively with local hunter-gatherers, with relatively sex-balanced admixture compared to the male-biased hunter-gatherer admixture that we show prevailed later in the North and West. After the spread of farming, southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between East and West, with intermittent steppe ancestry, including in individuals from the Varna I cemetery and associated with the Cucuteni-Trypillian archaeological complex, up to 2,000 years before the Steppe migration that replaced much of northern Europe’s population.