Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
Michal Feldman, Raffaela A. Bianco, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Cosimo Posth, Wolfgang Haak, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause, Eva Fernandez-Dominguez, Luke Reynolds, Douglas Baird, Jessica Pearson, Israel Hershkovitz, Hila May, Nigel Goring-Morris, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Andrew Fairbairn, Gokhan Mustafaoglu
article (Uluslararası, Hakemli) | Yazar(lar): Michal Feldman, Raffaela A. Bianco, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Cosimo Posth, Wolfgang Haak, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause, Eva Fernandez-Dominguez, Luke Reynolds, Douglas Baird, Jessica Pearson, Israel Hershkovitz, Hila May, Nigel Goring-Morris, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, A
Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. We find high genetic continuity (similar to 80-90%) between the hunter-gatherers and early farmers of Anatolia and detect two distinct incoming ancestries: an early Iranian/Caucasus related one and a later one linked to the ancient Levant. Finally, we observe a genetic link between southern Europe and the Near East predating 15,000 years ago. Our results suggest a limited role of human migration in the emergence of agriculture in central Anatolia.