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Jones, Eppie R.Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria
Connell, Sarah
Siska, Veronika
Eriksson, Anders

Martiniano, Rui
McLaughlin, Russell L.
Gallego Llorente, Marcos

Cassidy, Lara M.
Gamba, Cristina
Meshveliani, Tengiz
Bar-Yosef, Ofer
Müller, Werner
Belfer-Cohen, Anna
Matskevich, Zinovi
Jakeli, Nino
Higham, Thomas F. G.
Currat, Mathias
Lordkipanidze, David
Hofreiter, Michael
Manica, Andrea
Pinhasi, Ron
Bradley, Daniel G.
KAUST Department
Integrative Systems Biology LabBiological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
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2015-11-16Online Publication Date
2015-11-16Print Publication Date
2015-12Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/583053
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We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by sequencing the genomes of Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,300 years old, 1.4-fold coverage) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old, 15.4-fold) males from western Georgia in the Caucasus and a Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,700 years old, 9.5-fold) male from Switzerland. While we detect Late Palaeolithic–Mesolithic genomic continuity in both regions, we find that Caucasus hunter-gatherers (CHG) belong to a distinct ancient clade that split from western hunter-gatherers ~45 kya, shortly after the expansion of anatomically modern humans into Europe and from the ancestors of Neolithic farmers ~25 kya, around the Last Glacial Maximum. CHG genomes significantly contributed to the Yamnaya steppe herders who migrated into Europe ~3,000 BC, supporting a formative Caucasus influence on this important Early Bronze age culture. CHG left their imprint on modern populations from the Caucasus and also central and south Asia possibly marking the arrival of Indo-Aryan languages.Citation
Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians 2015, 6:8912 Nature CommunicationsPublisher
Springer NatureJournal
Nature CommunicationsPubMed ID
26567969Additional Links
http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/ncomms9912ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/ncomms9912
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