TY - JOUR T1 - Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/032763 SP - 032763 AU - Zuzana Hofmanová AU - Susanne Kreutzer AU - Garrett Hellenthal AU - Christian Sell AU - Yoan Diekmann AU - David Díez-del-Molino AU - Lucy van Dorp AU - Saioa López AU - Athanasios Kousathanas AU - Vivian Link AU - Karola Kirsanow AU - Lara M. Cassidy AU - Rui Martiniano AU - Melanie Strobel AU - Amelie Scheu AU - Kostas Kotsakis AU - Paul Halstead AU - Sevi Triantaphyllou AU - Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika AU - Dushanka-Christina Urem-Kotsou AU - Christina Ziota AU - Fotini Adaktylou AU - Shyamalika Gopalan AU - Dean M. Bobo AU - Laura Winkelbach AU - Jens Blöcher AU - Martina Unterländer AU - Christoph Leuenberger AU - Çiler Çilingiroğlu AU - Barbara Horejs AU - Fokke Gerritsen AU - Stephen Shennan AU - Daniel G. Bradley AU - Mathias Currat AU - Krishna R. Veeramah AU - Daniel Wegmann AU - Mark G. Thomas AU - Christina Papageorgopoulou AU - Joachim Burger Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/25/032763.abstract N2 - 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 – 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. ER -