Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin

ABSTRACT: 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, 2, 3], who largely replaced the local Mesoli...

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Autores: González-Fortes, Gloria, Jones, Eppie R., Lightfoot, Emma, Bonsall, Clive, Lazar, Catalin, Grandal D'Anglade, Aurora, Garralda, María Dolores, Drak, Labib, Siska, Veronika, Simalcsik, Angela, Boroneant, Adina, Vidal Romaní, Juan Ramón, Vaqueiro Rodríguez, Marcos, Arias Cabal, Pablo|||0000-0003-0481-7563, Pinhasi, Ron, Manica, Andrea, Hofreiter, Michael
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Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
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spelling Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube BasinGonzález-Fortes, GloriaJones, Eppie R.Lightfoot, EmmaBonsall, CliveLazar, CatalinGrandal D'Anglade, AuroraGarralda, María DoloresDrak, LabibSiska, VeronikaSimalcsik, AngelaBoroneant, AdinaVidal Romaní, Juan RamónVaqueiro Rodríguez, MarcosArias Cabal, Pablo|||0000-0003-0481-7563Pinhasi, RonManica, AndreaHofreiter, MichaelABSTRACT: 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, 2, 3], who largely replaced the local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers [1, 4, 5, 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 (1.1× to 4.1× 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 (1.7× and 5.3×) 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 stable-isotope 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.This research was supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (ERC-2010-StG 263441) to R.P. G.G.-F. was also supported by MSC Individual Fellowship (NeoGenHeritage, grant no. 655478). E.R.J. was supported by a Herchel Smith Research Fellowship. M.H. and A.M. were supported by ERC consolidator grants 310763 GeneFlow and 647797 LocalAdaptation, respectively. V.S. was supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust. The work of C.L. was undertaken through the Partnerships in Priority Areas Program PN II, developed with the support of MEN-UEFISCDI (project no. PN-II-PTPCCA- 2013-4-2302). A.G.-D. is supported by the research project BIOGEOS (CGL2014-57209-P) of the Spanish MINECO. The research of P.A., M.D.G., and L.D. on Los Canes is currently supported by the project CoChange (HAR2014-51830-P) of the Spanish State Plan for R+D+i (MINECO).ElsevierUniversidad de Cantabria20172017-06-19journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10902/18587Current biology, 27(12), 19 June 2017, pp. 1801-1810reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/185872026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
title Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
spellingShingle Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
González-Fortes, Gloria
title_short Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
title_full Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
title_fullStr Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
title_full_unstemmed Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
title_sort Paleogenomic Evidence for the Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González-Fortes, Gloria
Jones, Eppie R.
Lightfoot, Emma
Bonsall, Clive
Lazar, Catalin
Grandal D'Anglade, Aurora
Garralda, María Dolores
Drak, Labib
Siska, Veronika
Simalcsik, Angela
Boroneant, Adina
Vidal Romaní, Juan Ramón
Vaqueiro Rodríguez, Marcos
Arias Cabal, Pablo|||0000-0003-0481-7563
Pinhasi, Ron
Manica, Andrea
Hofreiter, Michael
author González-Fortes, Gloria
author_facet González-Fortes, Gloria
Jones, Eppie R.
Lightfoot, Emma
Bonsall, Clive
Lazar, Catalin
Grandal D'Anglade, Aurora
Garralda, María Dolores
Drak, Labib
Siska, Veronika
Simalcsik, Angela
Boroneant, Adina
Vidal Romaní, Juan Ramón
Vaqueiro Rodríguez, Marcos
Arias Cabal, Pablo|||0000-0003-0481-7563
Pinhasi, Ron
Manica, Andrea
Hofreiter, Michael
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Lightfoot, Emma
Bonsall, Clive
Lazar, Catalin
Grandal D'Anglade, Aurora
Garralda, María Dolores
Drak, Labib
Siska, Veronika
Simalcsik, Angela
Boroneant, Adina
Vidal Romaní, Juan Ramón
Vaqueiro Rodríguez, Marcos
Arias Cabal, Pablo|||0000-0003-0481-7563
Pinhasi, Ron
Manica, Andrea
Hofreiter, Michael
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description ABSTRACT: 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, 2, 3], who largely replaced the local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers [1, 4, 5, 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 (1.1× to 4.1× 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 (1.7× and 5.3×) 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 stable-isotope 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.
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