Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments

Benjamin Vernot; Elena I. Zavala; Asier Gómez-Olivencia; Zenobia Jacobs; Viviane Slon; Fabrizio Mafessoni; Frédéric Romagné; Alice Pearson; Martin Petr; Nohemi Sala; Adrián Pablos; Arantza Aranbur; José Mariá Bermúdez De Castro; Eudald Carbonell; Bo Li; MacIej T. Krajcarz; Andrey I. Krivoshapkin; Kseniya A. Kolobova; Maxim B. Kozlikin; Michael V. Shunkov; Anatoly P. Derevianko; Bence Viola; Steffi Grote; Elena Essel; David López Herraéz; Sarah Nagel; Birgit Nickel; Julia Richter; Anna Schmidt; Benjamin Peter; Janet Kelso; Richard G. Roberts; Juan Luis Arsuaga; Matthias Meyer

doi:10.1126/science.abf1667

Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments

Benjamin Vernot^*, Elena I. Zavala, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Zenobia Jacobs, Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Frédéric Romagné, Alice Pearson, Martin Petr, Nohemi Sala, Adrián Pablos, Arantza Aranbur, José Mariá Bermúdez De Castro, Eudald Carbonell, Bo Li, MacIej T. Krajcarz, Andrey I. Krivoshapkin, Kseniya A. Kolobova, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Michael V. ShunkovAnatoly P. Derevianko, Bence Viola, Steffi Grote, Elena Essel, David López Herraéz, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Julia Richter, Anna Schmidt, Benjamin Peter, Janet Kelso, Richard G. Roberts, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Matthias Meyer^*

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Abstract

Bones and teeth are important sources of Pleistocene hominin DNA, but are rarely recovered at archaeological sites. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been retrieved from cave sediments but provides limited value for studying population relationships. We therefore developed methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments and applied them to cave deposits in western Europe and southern Siberia dated to between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago. We detected a population replacement in northern Spain about 100,000 years ago, which was accompanied by a turnover of mtDNA. We also identified two radiation events in Neanderthal history during the early part of the Late Pleistocene. Our work lays the ground for studying the population history of ancient hominins from trace amounts of nuclear DNA in sediments.

Original language	English
Article number	590
Journal	Science
Volume	372
Issue number	6542
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1667
State	Published - 7 May 2021

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Australian Research Council	FL130100116, FT150100138
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	694707

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Vernot, B., Zavala, E. I., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Jacobs, Z., Slon, V., Mafessoni, F., Romagné, F., Pearson, A., Petr, M., Sala, N., Pablos, A., Aranbur, A., De Castro, J. M. B., Carbonell, E., Li, B., Krajcarz, M. T., Krivoshapkin, A. I., Kolobova, K. A., Kozlikin, M. B., ... Meyer, M. (2021). Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments. Science, 372(6542), Article 590. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1667

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