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

^*Corresponding author for this work

Anatomy and Anthropology

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Durham University
Liverpool John Moores University
University of Liverpool
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Free University of Berlin
German Archaeological Institute
University of Queensland
Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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

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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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