Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory
University College Dublin · Trinity College Dublin · +10 more institutions
Abstract
The Great Hungarian Plain was a crossroads of cultural transformations that have shaped European prehistory. Here we analyse a 5,000-year transect of human genomes, sampled from petrous bones giving consistently excellent endogenous DNA yields, from 13 Hungarian Neolithic, Copper, Bronze and Iron Age burials including two to high (~22 × ) and seven to ~1 × coverage, to investigate the impact of these on Europe's genetic landscape. These data suggest genomic shifts with the advent of the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, with interleaved periods of genome stability. The earliest Neolithic context genome shows a European hunter-gatherer genetic signature and a restricted ancestral population size, suggesting…
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17Topics & keywords
- Prehistory
- Bronze Age
- Ancient DNA
- Context (archaeology)
- Geography
- Bronze
- Transect
- Steppe