TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jones, Eppie R.
A1  - González-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Connell, Sarah
A1  - Siska, Veronika
A1  - Eriksson, Anders
A1  - Martiniano, Rui
A1  - McLaughlin, Russell L.
A1  - Llorente, Marcos Gallego
A1  - Cassidy, Lara M.
A1  - Gamba, Cristina
A1  - Meshveliani, Tengiz
A1  - Bar-Yosef, Ofer
A1  - Mueller, Werner
A1  - Belfer-Cohen, Anna
A1  - Matskevich, Zinovi
A1  - Jakeli, Nino
A1  - Higham, Thomas F. G.
A1  - Currat, Mathias
A1  - Lordkipanidze, David
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Manica, Andrea
A1  - Pinhasi, Ron
A1  - Bradley, Daniel G.
T1  - Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by sequencing the genomes of Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,300 years old, 1.4-fold coverage) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old, 15.4-fold) males from western Georgia in the Caucasus and a Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,700 years old, 9.5-fold) male from Switzerland. While we detect Late Palaeolithic-Mesolithic genomic continuity in both regions, we find that Caucasus hunter-gatherers (CHG) belong to a distinct ancient clade that split from western hunter-gatherers similar to 45 kya, shortly after the expansion of anatomically modern humans into Europe and from the ancestors of Neolithic farmers similar to 25 kya, around the Last Glacial Maximum. CHG genomes significantly contributed to the Yamnaya steppe herders who migrated into Europe similar to 3,000 BC, supporting a formative Caucasus influence on this important Early Bronze age culture. CHG left their imprint on modern populations from the Caucasus and also central and south Asia possibly marking the arrival of Indo-Aryan languages.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9912
SN  - 2041-1723
VL  - 6
PB  - Nature Publishing Group
CY  - London
ER  -