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- Ethnic group
- North Alpine Italian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- T1a2 -Z19945..Jura
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H95a1 ..Pannoni
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)30559-6.pdf
Paleogenomic Evidence for Multi-generational
Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic
Hunter-Gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
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 [1–3],who largely replaced the local Mesolithic hunter-
gatherers [1, 4–6]. 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 character-
ized by a rapid Neolithic transition but also by the
presence of archaeological evidence that points to
cultural exchange, and thus possible admixture, be-
tween hunter-gatherers and farmers. We recovered
four human paleogenomes (1.13to 4.13coverage)
from Romania spanning a time transect between
8.8 thousand years ago (kya) and 5.4 kya and supple-
mented them with two Mesolithic genomes (1.73
and5.33) from Spain to provide further context on
the genetic background of Mesolithic Europe.
Paleogenomic Evidence for Multi-generational
Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic
Hunter-Gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin
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 [1–3],who largely replaced the local Mesolithic hunter-
gatherers [1, 4–6]. 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 character-
ized by a rapid Neolithic transition but also by the
presence of archaeological evidence that points to
cultural exchange, and thus possible admixture, be-
tween hunter-gatherers and farmers. We recovered
four human paleogenomes (1.13to 4.13coverage)
from Romania spanning a time transect between
8.8 thousand years ago (kya) and 5.4 kya and supple-
mented them with two Mesolithic genomes (1.73
and5.33) from Spain to provide further context on
the genetic background of Mesolithic Europe.