Eppie R. Jones, Gloria M. González-Fortes, Sarah Connell, Veronika Siska, Anders Eriksson, Rui Martiniano, Russell L. McLaughlin, Marcos Gallego Llorente, Lara M. Cassidy, Cristina Gamba, Tengiz Meshveliani, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Werner Mueller, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Zinovi Matskevich, Nino Jakeli, Thomas F. G. Higham, Mathias Currat, David Lordkipanidze, Michael Hofreiter, Andrea Manica, Ron Pinhasi, Daniel G. Bradley
- 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.
MetadatenAuthor details: | Eppie R. Jones, Gloria M. González-FortesORCiD, Sarah Connell, Veronika Siska, Anders Eriksson, Rui Martiniano, Russell L. McLaughlin, Marcos Gallego Llorente, Lara M. Cassidy, Cristina Gamba, Tengiz Meshveliani, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Werner Mueller, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Zinovi Matskevich, Nino Jakeli, Thomas F. G. Higham, Mathias Currat, David Lordkipanidze, Michael HofreiterORCiDGND, Andrea Manica, Ron PinhasiORCiD, Daniel G. BradleyORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9912 |
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ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
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Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26567969 |
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Title of parent work (English): | Nature Communications |
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Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
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Place of publishing: | London |
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Publication type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Date of first publication: | 2015/11/16 |
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Publication year: | 2015 |
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Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
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Volume: | 6 |
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Article number: | 8912 |
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Number of pages: | 8 |
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Funding institution: | European Research Council (ERC) [ERC-2010-StG 263441]; ERC [295729-CodeX, 310763-GeneFlow, 647787-LocalAdaptation]; National Geographic Global Exploration Fund [grant-GEFNE78-13]; Gates Cambridge Trust; BBSRC DTP studentship; Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) ERC Support Programme; Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowships [FP7-IEF-328024]; BEAN project of the Marie Curie ITN [289966]; Irish Research Council [GOIPG/2013/1219]; ALS Association of America [2284]; Fondation Thierry Latran (ALSIBD); Swiss NSF grant [31003A_156853] |
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Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
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| Extern / Extern |
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DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 50 Naturwissenschaften / 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
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Peer review: | Referiert |
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Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
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License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
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External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 1334 |
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