Université de Fribourg

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

Hofmanová, Zuzana ; Kreutzer, Susanne ; Hellenthal, Garrett ; Sell, Christian ; Diekmann, Yoan ; Díez-del-Molino, David ; Dorp, Lucy van ; López, Saioa ; Kousathanas, Athanasios ; Link, Vivian ; Kirsanow, Karola ; Cassidy, Lara M. ; Martiniano, Rui ; Strobel, Melanie ; Scheu, Amelie ; Kotsakis, Kostas ; Halstead, Paul ; Triantaphyllou, Sevi ; Kyparissi-Apostolika, Nina ; Urem-Kotsou, Dushka ; Ziota, Christina ; Adaktylou, Fotini ; Gopalan, Shyamalika ; Bobo, Dean M. ; Winkelbach, Laura ; Blöcher, Jens ; Unterländer, Martina ; Leuenberger, Christoph ; Çilingiroğlu, Çiler ; Horejs, Barbara ; Gerritsen, Fokke ; Shennan, Stephen J. ; Bradley, Daniel G. ; Currat, Mathias ; Veeramah, Krishna R. ; Wegmann, Daniel ; Thomas, Mark G. ; Papageorgopoulou, Christina ; Burger, Joachim

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016, vol. 113, no. 25, p. 6886–6891

Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes. Conspicuous uncertainties remain about the relative roles of migration, cultural diffusion, and admixture with local foragers in the early Neolithization of Europe. Here we present paleogenomic data for five Neolithic...