Authors:	Broushaki, Farnaz Thomas, Mark G. Link, Vivian López, Saioa van Dorp, Lucy Kirsanow, Karola Hofmanová, Zuzana Diekmann, Yoan Cassidy, Lara M. Díez-del-Molino, David Kousathanas, Athanasios Sell, Christian Robson, Harry K. Martiniano, Rui Blöcher, Jens Scheu, Amelie Kreutzer, Susanne Bollongino, Ruth Bobo, Dean Davoudi, Hossein Munoz, Olivia Currat, Mathias Abdi, Kamyar Biglari, Fereidoun Craig, Oliver E. Bradley, Daniel G. Shennan, Stephen Veeramah, Krishna R. Mashkour, Marjan Wegmann, Daniel Hellenthal, Garrett Burger, Joachim
Title:	Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent
Online publication date:	7-Dec-2022
Year of first publication:	2016
Language:	english
Abstract:	We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterized population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed substantially to the ancestry of modern Europeans. These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46,000 to 77,000 years ago and show affinities to modern-day Pakistani and Afghan populations, but particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians. We conclude that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in southwestern Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion.
DDC:	570 Biowissenschaften 570 Life sciences
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 10 Biologie
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8494
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License:	In Copyright
Information on rights of use:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Journal:	Science 353 6298
Pages or article number:	499 503
Publisher:	American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher place:	Washington, DC
Issue date:	2016
ISSN:	0036-8075
Publisher URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf7943
Publisher DOI:	10.1126/science.aaf7943
Appears in collections:	DFG-OA-Publizieren (2012 - 2017)