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Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation
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 an...
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author | Harney, Éadaoin May, Hila Shalem, Dina Rohland, Nadin Mallick, Swapan Lazaridis, Iosif Sarig, Rachel Stewardson, Kristin Nordenfelt, Susanne Patterson, Nick Hershkovitz, Israel Reich, David |
author_facet | Harney, Éadaoin May, Hila Shalem, Dina Rohland, Nadin Mallick, Swapan Lazaridis, Iosif Sarig, Rachel Stewardson, Kristin Nordenfelt, Susanne Patterson, Nick Hershkovitz, Israel Reich, David |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-61022972018-08-22 Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation Harney, Éadaoin May, Hila Shalem, Dina Rohland, Nadin Mallick, Swapan Lazaridis, Iosif Sarig, Rachel Stewardson, Kristin Nordenfelt, Susanne Patterson, Nick Hershkovitz, Israel Reich, David Nat Commun Article 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6102297/ /pubmed/30127404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05649-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Harney, Éadaoin May, Hila Shalem, Dina Rohland, Nadin Mallick, Swapan Lazaridis, Iosif Sarig, Rachel Stewardson, Kristin Nordenfelt, Susanne Patterson, Nick Hershkovitz, Israel Reich, David Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation |
title | Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation |
title_full | Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation |
title_fullStr | Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation |
title_full_unstemmed | Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation |
title_short | Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation |
title_sort | ancient dna from chalcolithic israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6102297/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30127404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05649-9 |
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