Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia

Michal Feldman; Eva Fernández-Domínguez; Luke Reynolds; Douglas Baird; Jessica Pearson; Israel Hershkovitz; Hila May; Nigel Goring-Morris; Marion Benz; Julia Gresky; Raffaela A. Bianco; Andrew Fairbairn; Gökhan Mustafaoğlu; Philipp W. Stockhammer; Cosimo Posth; Wolfgang Haak; Choongwon Jeong; Johannes Krause

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7

Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia

Michal Feldman, Eva Fernández-Domínguez, Luke Reynolds, Douglas Baird, Jessica Pearson, Israel Hershkovitz, Hila May, Nigel Goring-Morris, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Raffaela A. Bianco, Andrew Fairbairn, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Cosimo Posth, Wolfgang Haak, Choongwon Jeong^*, Johannes Krause

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Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. We find high genetic continuity (~80–90%) between the hunter-gatherers and early farmers of Anatolia and detect two distinct incoming ancestries: an early Iranian/Caucasus related one and a later one linked to the ancient Levant. Finally, we observe a genetic link between southern Europe and the Near East predating 15,000 years ago. Our results suggest a limited role of human migration in the emergence of agriculture in central Anatolia.

Original language	English
Article number	1218
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7
State	Published - 1 Dec 2019

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Funders	Funder number
Institute for Field Research
Irene Levi Sala CARE Foundation
LJMU Faculty of Science
Wenner-Gren Foundation
National Geographic Society	8625/09
British Academy	LRG 35439, BR100077
British Institute at Ankara
University of Oxford
Australian Research Council	DP120100969, DP0663385, GEFNE 1-11
Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering	AINGRA05051, AINGRA10069
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	80 1599/14–1
Israel Science Foundation	755/07, 1161/10, 558/04, 840/01
Liverpool John Moores University
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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Feldman, M., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Reynolds, L., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Hershkovitz, I., May, H., Goring-Morris, N., Benz, M., Gresky, J., Bianco, R. A., Fairbairn, A., Mustafaoğlu, G., Stockhammer, P. W., Posth, C., Haak, W., Jeong, C., & Krause, J. (2019). Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 1218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7

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