Authors:	Marchi, Nina Winkelbach, Laura Schulz, Ilektra Brami, Maxime Hofmanová, Zuzana Blöcher, Jens Reyna-Blanco, Carlos S. Diekmann, Yoan Thiéry, Alexandre Kapopoulou, Adamandia Link, Vivian Piuz, Valérie Kreutzer, Susanne Figarska, Sylwia M. Ganiatsou, Elissavet Pukaj, Albert Struck, Travis J. Gutenkunst, Ryan N. Karul, Necmi Gerritsen, Fokke Pechtl, Joachim Peters, Joris Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea Lenneis, Eva Teschler-Nicola, Maria Triantaphyllou, Sevasti Stefanović, Sofija Papageorgopoulou, Christina Wegmann, Daniel Burger, Joachim Excoffier, Laurent
Title:	The genomic origins of the world's first farmers
Online publication date:	27-Mar-2024
Year of first publication:	2022
Language:	english
Abstract:	The precise genetic origins of the first Neolithic farming populations in Europe and Southwest Asia, as well as the processes and the timing of their differentiation, remain largely unknown. Demogenomic modeling of high-quality ancient genomes reveals that the early farmers of Anatolia and Europe emerged from a multiphase mixing of a Southwest Asian population with a strongly bottlenecked western hunter-gatherer population after the last glacial maximum. Moreover, the ancestors of the first farmers of Europe and Anatolia went through a period of extreme genetic drift during their westward range expansion, contributing highly to their genetic distinctiveness. This modeling elucidates the demographic processes at the root of the Neolithic transition and leads to a spatial interpretation of the population history of Southwest Asia and Europe during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
DDC:	570 Biowissenschaften 570 Life sciences 930 Alte Geschichte 930 History of ancient world
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 10 Biologie
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-10244
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	CC BY-NC
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Journal:	Cell 185 11
Pages or article number:	1842 1859
Publisher:	Elsevier
Publisher place:	New York, NY
Issue date:	2022
ISSN:	0092-8674
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.008
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-H