Статья

Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers

Barbara BramantiInstitute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, GermanyMark ThomasResearch Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UKWolfgang HaakInstitute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, GermanyM. UnterlaenderInstitute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, GermanyPia JoresInstitute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, GermanyKristiina TambetsDepartment of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, EstoniaIndrė Antanaitis-JacobsDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology, University of Vilnius, LithuaniaMiriam Noël HaidleResearch Center “The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans” of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyRimantas JankauskasDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology, University of Vilnius, LithuaniaClaus-Joachim KindRegierungspräsidium Stuttgart, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, GermanyFriedrich LuethRömisch-Germanische Kommission (RGK), Frankfurt am Main, GermanyThomas TerbergerLehrstuhl für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, University of Greifswald, GermanyJennifer HillerBiophysics Group, Cardiff School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UKShuichi MatsumuraInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, AustriaPeter ForsterCambridge Society for the Application of Research, Cambridge, UKJoachim BürgerInstitute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

2009en

ABI

Аннотация

After the domestication of animals and crops in the Near East some 11,000 years ago, farming had reached much of central Europe by 7500 years before the present. The extent to which these early European farmers were immigrants or descendants of resident hunter-gatherers who had adopted farming has been widely debated. We compared new mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from late European hunter-gatherer skeletons with those from early farmers and from modern Europeans. We find large genetic differences between all three groups that cannot be explained by population continuity alone. Most (82%) of the ancient hunter-gatherers share mtDNA types that are relatively rare in central Europeans today. Together, these analyses provide persuasive evidence that the first farmers were not the descendants of local hunter-gatherers but immigrated into central Europe at the onset of the Neolithic.

Перевод пока недоступен

Идентификаторы

DOI: 10.1126/science.1176869

Цитирования и источники

Цитирований: 3Использованных источников: 0

Показатели — AkademScholar