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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Tassi, F.
A1  - Trucchi, E.
A1  - Henneberger, K.
A1  - Paijmans, Johanna L. A.
A1  - Diez-del-Molino, D.
A1  - Schroeder, H.
A1  - Susca, R. R.
A1  - Barroso-Ruiz, C.
A1  - Bermudez, F. J.
A1  - Barroso-Medina, C.
A1  - Bettencourt, A. M. S.
A1  - Sampaio, H. A.
A1  - Salas, A.
A1  - de Lombera-Hermida, A.
A1  - Fabregas Valcarce, Ramón
A1  - Vaquero, M.
A1  - Alonso, S.
A1  - Lozano, Marina
A1  - Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xose Pedro
A1  - Fernandez-Rodriguez, C.
A1  - Manica, Andrea
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Barbujani, Guido
T1  - A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula
JF  - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences
N2  - Being at the western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern populations, reported the presence of DNA of likely African origin in this region, generally concluding it was the result of recent gene flow, probably during the Islamic period. Here, we provide evidence of much older gene flow from Africa to Iberia by sequencing whole genomes from four human remains from northern Portugal and southern Spain dated around 4000 years BP (from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age). We found one of them to carry an unequivocal sub-Saharan mitogenome of most probably West or West-Central African origin, to our knowledge never reported before in prehistoric remains outside Africa. Our analyses of ancient nuclear genomes show small but significant levels of sub-Saharan African affinity in several ancient Iberian samples, which indicates that what we detected was not an occasional individual phenomenon, but an admixture event recognizable at the population level. We interpret this result as evidence of an early migration process from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula through a western route, possibly across the Strait of Gibraltar.
KW  - palaeogenome
KW  - Africa
KW  - Iberia
KW  - mitochondrial DNA
KW  - gene flow
KW  - admixture
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2288
SN  - 0962-8452
SN  - 1471-2954
VL  - 286
IS  - 1895
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - González-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Jones, Eppie R.
A1  - Lightfoot, Emma
A1  - Bonsall, Clive
A1  - Lazar, Catalin
A1  - Dolores Garralda, Maria
A1  - Drak, Labib
A1  - Siska, Veronika
A1  - Simalcsik, Angela
A1  - Boroneant, Adina
A1  - Vidal Romani, Juan Ramon
A1  - Vaqueiro Rodriguez, Marcos
A1  - Arias, Pablo
A1  - Pinhasi, Ron
A1  - Manica, Andrea
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
T1  - Paleogenomic Evidence for Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
JF  - Current biology
N2  - The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved profound cultural and technological changes. In Western and Central Europe, these changes occurred rapidly and synchronously after the arrival of early farmers of Anatolian origin [1-3], who largely replaced the local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers [1, 4-6]. Further east, in the Baltic region, the transition was gradual, with little or no genetic input from incoming farmers [7]. Here we use ancient DNA to investigate the relationship between hunter-gatherers and farmers in the Lower Danube basin, a geographically intermediate area that is characterized by a rapid Neolithic transition but also by the presence of archaeological evidence that points to cultural exchange, and thus possible admixture, between hunter-gatherers and farmers. We recovered four human paleogenomes (1.13 to 4.13 coverage) from Romania spanning a time transect between 8.8 thousand years ago (kya) and 5.4 kya and supplemented them with two Mesolithic genomes (1.73- and 5.33) from Spain to provide further context on the genetic background of Mesolithic Europe. Our results show major Western hunter-gatherer (WHG) ancestry in a Romanian Eneolithic sample with a minor, but sizeable, contribution from Anatolian farmers, suggesting multiple admixture events between hunter-gatherers and farmers. Dietary stableisotope analysis of this sample suggests a mixed terrestrial/ aquatic diet. Our results provide support for complex interactions among hunter-gatherers and farmers in the Danube basin, demonstrating that in some regions, demic and cultural diffusion were not mutually exclusive, but merely the ends of a continuum for the process of Neolithization.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.023
SN  - 0960-9822
SN  - 1879-0445
VL  - 27
SP  - 1801
EP  - +
PB  - Cell Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
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  -