@article {Hofmanov{\'a}032763, author = {Zuzana Hofmanov{\'a} and Susanne Kreutzer and Garrett Hellenthal and Christian Sell and Yoan Diekmann and David D{\'\i}ez-del-Molino and Lucy van Dorp and Saioa L{\'o}pez and Athanasios Kousathanas and Vivian Link and Karola Kirsanow and Lara M. Cassidy and Rui Martiniano and Melanie Strobel and Amelie Scheu and Kostas Kotsakis and Paul Halstead and Sevi Triantaphyllou and Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika and Dushanka-Christina Urem-Kotsou and Christina Ziota and Fotini Adaktylou and Shyamalika Gopalan and Dean M. Bobo and Laura Winkelbach and Jens Bl{\"o}cher and Martina Unterl{\"a}nder and Christoph Leuenberger and {\c C}iler {\c C}ilingiro{\u g}lu and Barbara Horejs and Fokke Gerritsen and Stephen Shennan and Daniel G. Bradley and Mathias Currat and Krishna R. Veeramah and Daniel Wegmann and Mark G. Thomas and Christina Papageorgopoulou and Joachim Burger}, title = {Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans}, elocation-id = {032763}, year = {2015}, doi = {10.1101/032763}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {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 {\textendash} 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.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/25/032763}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/25/032763.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }