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Éadaoin Harney1,2,3, Hila May4,5, Dina Shalem6, Nadin Rohland7, Swapan Mallick7,8,9, Iosif Lazaridis7,10, Rachel Sarig11,12, Kristin Stewardson7,9, Susanne Nordenfelt7,9, Nick Patterson8,9, Israel Hershkovitz13,11, David Reich7,10,8,9.
Abstract
The material culture of the Late Chalcolithic period in the southern Levant (4500-3900/3800 BCE) is qualitatively distinct from previous and subsequent periods. Here, to test the hypothesis that the advent and decline of this culture was influenced by movements of people, we generated genome-wide ancient DNA from 22 individuals from Peqi'in Cave, Israel. These individuals were part of a homogeneous population that can be modeled as deriving ~57% of its ancestry from groups related to those of the local Levant Neolithic, ~17% from groups related to those of the Iran Chalcolithic, and ~26% from groups related to those of the Anatolian Neolithic. The Peqi'in population also appears to have contributed differently to later Bronze Age groups, one of which we show cannot plausibly have descended from the same population as that of Peqi'in Cave. These results provide an example of how population movements propelled cultural changes in the deep past.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID： 30127404 PMCID： PMC6102297 DOI： 10.1038/s41467-018-05649-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Commun ISSN： 2041-1723 Impact factor: 14.919