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Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe
B. Pereira et al
See:
https://figshare.com/collections/Su...lithic_within_Mediterranean_Europe_/3703558/1
Marta Costa is also an author.
The use a combination of ancient and modern whole mitogenomes.
Unfortunately, they've posted the supplement before the paper. When the paper comes out I'll post a link here.
Meanwhile, the provocative abstract:
"Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA. It seems clear that farming was introduced into central, northern and eastern Europe from the south by pioneer colonization. It is often argued that these dispersals originated in the Near East, where the potential source genetic pool resembles that of the early European farmers, but clear ancient DNA evidence from Mediterranean Europe is lacking, and there are suggestions that Mediterranean Europe may have resembled the Near East more than the rest of Europe in the Mesolithic. Here we test this proposal by dating mitogenome founder lineages from the Near East in different regions of Europe. We find that whereas the lineages date mainly to the Neolithic in central Europe and Iberia, they largely date to the Late Glacial period in central/eastern Mediterranean Europe. This supports a scenario in which the genetic pool of Mediterranean Europe was partly a result of Late Glacial expansions from a Near Eastern refuge, and that this formed an important source pool for subsequent Neolithic expansions into the rest of Europe."
You can download the pdf of the supplement here. If someone more familiar with the methodology for dating mtDna reads it, perhaps you can post your opinion here.
https://figshare.com/articles/Metho...Neolithic_within_Mediterranean_Europe/4697617
If it turns out to be correct, some of us did speculate about this here. In particular, we posited that when the farmers from the Near East arrived, they met their cousins.
This could explain a lot of things.
If it turns out to be incorrect, just forget I ever said that.
B. Pereira et al
See:
https://figshare.com/collections/Su...lithic_within_Mediterranean_Europe_/3703558/1
Marta Costa is also an author.
The use a combination of ancient and modern whole mitogenomes.
Unfortunately, they've posted the supplement before the paper. When the paper comes out I'll post a link here.
Meanwhile, the provocative abstract:
"Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA. It seems clear that farming was introduced into central, northern and eastern Europe from the south by pioneer colonization. It is often argued that these dispersals originated in the Near East, where the potential source genetic pool resembles that of the early European farmers, but clear ancient DNA evidence from Mediterranean Europe is lacking, and there are suggestions that Mediterranean Europe may have resembled the Near East more than the rest of Europe in the Mesolithic. Here we test this proposal by dating mitogenome founder lineages from the Near East in different regions of Europe. We find that whereas the lineages date mainly to the Neolithic in central Europe and Iberia, they largely date to the Late Glacial period in central/eastern Mediterranean Europe. This supports a scenario in which the genetic pool of Mediterranean Europe was partly a result of Late Glacial expansions from a Near Eastern refuge, and that this formed an important source pool for subsequent Neolithic expansions into the rest of Europe."
You can download the pdf of the supplement here. If someone more familiar with the methodology for dating mtDna reads it, perhaps you can post your opinion here.
https://figshare.com/articles/Metho...Neolithic_within_Mediterranean_Europe/4697617
If it turns out to be correct, some of us did speculate about this here. In particular, we posited that when the farmers from the Near East arrived, they met their cousins.
This could explain a lot of things.
If it turns out to be incorrect, just forget I ever said that.