Broushaki, F;
Thomas, MG;
Link, V;
López, S;
van Dorp, L;
Kirsanow, K;
Hofmanová, Z;
... Burger, J; + view all
(2016)
Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent.
Science
, 353
(6298)
pp. 499-503.
10.1126/science.aaf7943.
Preview |
Text (Accepted manuscript)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent AAM.pdf Download (287kB) | Preview |
Preview |
Text (Supplementary material)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent AAM - Supplementary material.pdf Download (3MB) | Preview |
Preview |
Text (Figure 1)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Figure 1.pdf Download (1MB) | Preview |
Preview |
Text (Figure 2)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Figure 2.pdf Download (120kB) | Preview |
Preview |
Text (Figure 3)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Figure 3.pdf Download (432kB) | Preview |
Preview |
Text (Figure 4)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Figure 4.pdf Download (365kB) | Preview |
![[thumbnail of Supplementary table S20]](https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/other.png) |
Spreadsheet (Supplementary table S20)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Table S20.xlsx Download (793kB) |
|
Spreadsheet (Supplementary table S24)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Table S24.xlsx Download (2MB) |
|
Spreadsheet (Supplementary table S25)
Broushaki et al Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Table S25.xlsx Download (475kB) |
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 significantly to the ancestry of modern Europeans. These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46-77,000 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 SW-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.
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
