TY - JOUR
T1 - The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations
AU - Clemente, Florian
AU - Unterlaender, Martina
AU - Dolgova, Olga
AU - Amorim, Carlos Eduardo G.
AU - Coroado-Santos, Francisco
AU - Neuenschwander, Samuel
AU - Ganiatsou, Elissavet
AU - Davalos, Diana I. Cruz
AU - Anchieri, Lucas
AU - Michaud, Frederic
AU - Winkelbach, Laura
AU - Bloecher, Jens
AU - Cardenas, Yami Ommar Arizmendi
AU - da Mota, Barbara Sousa
AU - Kalliga, Eleni
AU - Souleles, Angelos
AU - Kontopoulos, Ioannis
AU - Karamitrou-Mentessidi, Georgia
AU - Philaniotou, Olga
AU - Sampson, Adamantios
AU - Theodorou, Dimitra
AU - Tsipopoulou, Metaxia
AU - Akamatis, Ioannis
AU - Halstead, Paul
AU - Kotsakis, Kostas
AU - Urem-Kotsou, Dushka
AU - Panagiotopoulos, Diamantis
AU - Ziota, Christina
AU - Triantaphyllou, Sevasti
AU - Delaneau, Olivier
AU - Jensen, Jeffrey D.
AU - Victor Moreno-Mayar, J.
AU - Burger, Joachim
AU - Sousa, Vitor C.
AU - Lao, Oscar
AU - Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo
AU - Papageorgopoulou, Christina
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Helladic (Mycenaean) cultures define the Bronze Age (BA) of Greece. Urbanism, complex social structures, craft and agricultural specialization, and the earliest forms of writing characterize this iconic period. We sequenced six Early to Middle BA whole genomes, along with 11 mitochondrial genomes, sampled from the three BA cultures of the Aegean Sea. The Early BA (EBA) genomes are homogeneous and derive most of their ancestry from Neolithic Aegeans, contrary to earlier hypotheses that the Neolithic- EBA cultural transition was due to massive population turnover. EBA Aegeans were shaped by relatively small-scale migration from East of the Aegean, as evidenced by the Caucasus-related ancestry also detected in Anatolians. In contrast, Middle BA (MBA) individuals of northern Greece differ from EBA populations in showing similar to 50% Pontic-Caspian Steppe-related ancestry, dated at ca. 2,600-2,000 BCE. Such gene flow events during the MBA contributed toward shaping present-day Greek genomes.
AB - The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Helladic (Mycenaean) cultures define the Bronze Age (BA) of Greece. Urbanism, complex social structures, craft and agricultural specialization, and the earliest forms of writing characterize this iconic period. We sequenced six Early to Middle BA whole genomes, along with 11 mitochondrial genomes, sampled from the three BA cultures of the Aegean Sea. The Early BA (EBA) genomes are homogeneous and derive most of their ancestry from Neolithic Aegeans, contrary to earlier hypotheses that the Neolithic- EBA cultural transition was due to massive population turnover. EBA Aegeans were shaped by relatively small-scale migration from East of the Aegean, as evidenced by the Caucasus-related ancestry also detected in Anatolians. In contrast, Middle BA (MBA) individuals of northern Greece differ from EBA populations in showing similar to 50% Pontic-Caspian Steppe-related ancestry, dated at ca. 2,600-2,000 BCE. Such gene flow events during the MBA contributed toward shaping present-day Greek genomes.
KW - SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM
KW - LACTASE-PERSISTENCE PHENOTYPE
KW - INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
KW - SKIN COLOR PREDICTION
KW - BRONZE-AGE
KW - SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT
KW - PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS
KW - POPULATION-STRUCTURE
KW - LACTOSE DIGESTION
KW - HIRISPLEX SYSTEM
U2 - 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.039
DO - 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.039
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33930288
VL - 184
SP - 2565
EP - 2586
JO - Cell
JF - Cell
SN - 0092-8674
IS - 10
M1 - 21
ER -