TY  - JOUR
A1  - Siska, Veronika
A1  - Jones, Eppie Ruth
A1  - Jeon, Sungwon
A1  - Bhak, Youngjune
A1  - Kim, Hak-Min
A1  - Cho, Yun Sung
A1  - Kim, Hyunho
A1  - Lee, Kyusang
A1  - Veselovskaya, Elizaveta
A1  - Balueva, Tatiana
A1  - Gallego-Llorente, Marcos
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Bradley, Daniel G.
A1  - Eriksson, Anders
A1  - Pinhasi, Ron
A1  - Bhak, Jong
A1  - Manica, Andrea
T1  - Genome-wide data from two early Neolithic East Asian individuals dating to 7700 years ago
JF  - Science Advances
N2  - Ancient genomes have revolutionized our understanding of Holocene prehistory and, particularly, the Neolithic transition in western Eurasia. In contrast, East Asia has so far received little attention, despite representing a core region at which the Neolithic transition took place independently ~3 millennia after its onset in the Near East. We report genome-wide data from two hunter-gatherers from Devil’s Gate, an early Neolithic cave site (dated to ~7.7 thousand years ago) located in East Asia, on the border between Russia and Korea. Both of these individuals are genetically most similar to geographically close modern populations from the Amur Basin, all speaking Tungusic languages, and, in particular, to the Ulchi. The similarity to nearby modern populations and the low levels of additional genetic material in the Ulchi imply a high level of genetic continuity in this region during the Holocene, a pattern that markedly contrasts with that reported for Europe.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601877
SN  - 2375-2548
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
PB  - American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
CY  - Washington
ER  -