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  • Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

    Author(s)
    Allentoft, Morten Erik
    Sikora, Martin
    Sjogren, Karl-Goran
    Rasmussen, Simon
    Rasmussen, Morten
    Stenderup, Jesper
    Damgaard, Peter de Barros
    Schroeder, Hannes
    Ahlstrom, Torbjorn
    Vinner, Lasse
    Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo
    Margaryan, Ashot
    Higham, Thomas F. G.
    Chivall, David
    Lynnerup, Niels
    Harvig, Lise
    Baron, Justyna
    Casa, Philippe Della
    Dabrowski, Pawel
    Duffy, Paul R.
    Ebel, Alexander V.
    Epimakhov, Andrey
    Frei, Karin
    Furmanek, Miroslaw
    Gralak, Tomasz
    Gromov, Andrey
    Gronkiewicz, Stanislaw
    Grupe, Gisela
    Willerslev, Eske
    et al.
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Willerslev, Eske
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and ...
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    The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and Asia. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesized spread of Indo-European languages during the Early Bronze Age. We also demonstrate that light skin pigmentation in Europeans was already present at high frequency in the Bronze Age, but not lactose tolerance, indicating a more recent onset of positive selection on lactose tolerance than previously thought.
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    Journal Title
    Nature
    Volume
    522
    Issue
    7555
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14507
    Subject
    Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172173
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