Genomic and dietary discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sicily

Sicily is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean because of its central position. Here, we present genomic and stable isotopic data for 19 prehistoric Sicilians covering the Mesolithic to Bronze Age periods (10,700-4,100 yBP). We find that Early Mesolithic hu...

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Autores: Yu, He, Van de Loosdrech, Marieke S., Mannino, Marcello A., Talamo, Sahra, Rohrlach, Adam B., Childebayeva, Ainash, Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa, Aron, Franziska, Brandt, Guido, Burri, Marta, Freund, Caecilia, Radzeviciute, Rita, Stahl, Raphaela, Wissgott, Antje, Fewlass, Helen, Tagliacozzo, Antonio, Piperno, Marcello, Tusa, Sebastiano, Collina, Carmine, Schimmenti, Vittoria, Di Salvo, Rosaria, Prüfer, Kay, Posth, Cosimo, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Gronenborn, Detlef, Binder, Didier, Jeong, Choongwon, Haak, Wolfgang, Krause, Johannes
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/272383
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/272383
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85129513849
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Paleogenetics
Biological sciences
Evolutionary biology
Paleobiology
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Sumario:Sicily is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean because of its central position. Here, we present genomic and stable isotopic data for 19 prehistoric Sicilians covering the Mesolithic to Bronze Age periods (10,700-4,100 yBP). We find that Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (HGs) from Sicily are a highly drifted lineage of the Early Holocene western European HGs, whereas Late Mesolithic HGs carry ∼20% ancestry related to northern and (south) eastern European HGs, indicating substantial gene flow. Early Neolithic farmers are genetically most similar to farmers from the Balkans and Greece, with only ∼7% of ancestry from local Mesolithic HGs. The genetic discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic match the changes in material culture and diet. Three outlying individuals dated to ∼8,000 yBP; however, suggest that hunter-gatherers interacted with incoming farmers at Grotta dell'Uzzo, resulting in a mixed economy and diet for a brief interlude at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.

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