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

by Matsumura, S , Jankauskas, R , Hiller, J , Antanaitis-Jacobs, I , Unterlaender, M , Thomas, M.G , Forster, P , Bramanti, B , Kind, C.-J , Haak, W , Tambets, K , Haidle, M.N , Terberger, T , Jores, P , Burger, J , Lueth, F

in Agriculture - history / animals / Anthropology / Archaeology / Central European region / Crops / DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics / DNA, Mitochondrial - history / Domestication / Emigration and Immigration - history / Europe / European Continental Ancestry Group - genetics / European Continental Ancestry Group - history / Europeans / Excavation and methods / Farmers / farming systems / Female / Fish culture / Genetic Variation / Haplotypes / History, Ancient / Human remains / Humans / Hunter gatherers / immigration / Laboratory methods / Male / Methodology and general studies / Middle East / Mitochondrial DNA / Molecular biology / Paleoanthropology / Paleontology / Population Dynamics / Population genetics / Population size / Prehistory and protohistory / Probability / Radiocarbon / Slavic culture

2009

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Journal Article

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

Matsumura, S,

Jankauskas, R,

Hiller, J,

Antanaitis-Jacobs, I,

Unterlaender, M,

Thomas, M.G,

Forster, P,

Bramanti, B,

Kind, C.-J,

Haak, W,

Tambets, K,

Haidle, M.N,

Terberger, T,

Jores, P,

Burger, J,

Lueth, F

2009

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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.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science,The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Subject

Agriculture - history

/ animals

/ Anthropology

/ Archaeology

/ Central European region

/ Crops

/ DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics