TY - JOUR
T1 - Genomic and dietary discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sicily
AU - Yu, He
AU - van de Loosdrecht, Marieke S.
AU - Mannino, Marcello A.
AU - Talamo, Sahra
AU - Rohrlach, Adam B.
AU - Childebayeva, Ainash
AU - Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa
AU - Aron, Franziska
AU - Brandt, Guido
AU - Burri, Marta
AU - Freund, Cäcilia
AU - Radzeviciute, Rita
AU - Stahl, Raphaela
AU - Wissgott, Antje
AU - Fewlass, Helen
AU - Tagliacozzo, Antonio
AU - Piperno, Marcello
AU - Tusa, Sebastiano
AU - Collina, Carmine
AU - Schimmenti, Vittoria
AU - Di Salvo, Rosaria
AU - Prüfer, Kay
AU - Posth, Cosimo
AU - Hublin, Jean Jacques
AU - Gronenborn, Detlef
AU - Binder, Didier
AU - Jeong, Choongwon
AU - Haak, Wolfgang
AU - Krause, Johannes
N1 - Funding Information:
For helpful comments we thank Stephan Schiffels, Stephanie Eisenmann, Ma?t? Rivollat, Thiseas Lamnidis and other members of the Department of Archaeogenetics, and Barbara Pavlek of the Minds & Traditions research group of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. We thank David Reich, Shop Mallick and Ian Mathieson for access to unpublished data. We thank Sven Steinbrenner and Lysann Klausnitzer of the Department of Human Evolution from MPI-EVA, for the technical assistance of sample preparation and isotope analyses. We thank Matthias Meyer and Sarah Nagel of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics from MPI-EVA, for their technical support in single-stranded library preparation. Funding. The Max Planck Society financed the genetic, isotopic, and radiocarbon analyses. S. Talamo has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (grant agreement No. 803147 RESOLUTION, https://site.unibo.it/resolution-erc/en). M.Ma, W.H. and J.K. conceived the study. M.Ma. A.T. M.P, S.T. C.C. V.S. and R.DiS. provided the ancient human remains and, together with D.G. and D.B. input for the archaeological interpretation. M.vdL. C.F. and H.F. performed laboratory work with the help of F.A. M.B. R.R. R.S. A.W. and G.B. M.vdL. and H.Y. conducted the population genetic analyses with the help of V.V-M. A.B.R. A.C. K.P. C.J. and W.H. S.T. and H.F. performed the AMS radiocarbon dating analysis, and M.Ma. performed the isotope analysis. M.vdL. H.Y. M.Ma. W.H. C.P. C.J. K.P. and J.K. wrote the paper with input from all coauthors. The authors declare no competing interests.
Funding Information:
For helpful comments we thank Stephan Schiffels, Stephanie Eisenmann, Maïté Rivollat, Thiseas Lamnidis and other members of the Department of Archaeogenetics, and Barbara Pavlek of the Minds & Traditions research group of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. We thank David Reich, Shop Mallick and Ian Mathieson for access to unpublished data. We thank Sven Steinbrenner and Lysann Klausnitzer of the Department of Human Evolution from MPI-EVA, for the technical assistance of sample preparation and isotope analyses. We thank Matthias Meyer and Sarah Nagel of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics from MPI-EVA, for their technical support in single-stranded library preparation. Funding. The Max Planck Society financed the genetic, isotopic, and radiocarbon analyses. S. Talamo has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (grant agreement No. 803147 RESOLUTION, https://site.unibo.it/resolution-erc/en ).
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PY - 2022/5/20
Y1 - 2022/5/20
N2 - Sicily is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean because of its central position. Here, we present genomic and stable isotopic data for 19 prehistoric Sicilians covering the Mesolithic to Bronze Age periods (10,700–4,100 yBP). We find that Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (HGs) from Sicily are a highly drifted lineage of the Early Holocene western European HGs, whereas Late Mesolithic HGs carry ∼20% ancestry related to northern and (south) eastern European HGs, indicating substantial gene flow. Early Neolithic farmers are genetically most similar to farmers from the Balkans and Greece, with only ∼7% of ancestry from local Mesolithic HGs. The genetic discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic match the changes in material culture and diet. Three outlying individuals dated to ∼8,000 yBP; however, suggest that hunter-gatherers interacted with incoming farmers at Grotta dell'Uzzo, resulting in a mixed economy and diet for a brief interlude at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.
AB - Sicily is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean because of its central position. Here, we present genomic and stable isotopic data for 19 prehistoric Sicilians covering the Mesolithic to Bronze Age periods (10,700–4,100 yBP). We find that Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (HGs) from Sicily are a highly drifted lineage of the Early Holocene western European HGs, whereas Late Mesolithic HGs carry ∼20% ancestry related to northern and (south) eastern European HGs, indicating substantial gene flow. Early Neolithic farmers are genetically most similar to farmers from the Balkans and Greece, with only ∼7% of ancestry from local Mesolithic HGs. The genetic discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic match the changes in material culture and diet. Three outlying individuals dated to ∼8,000 yBP; however, suggest that hunter-gatherers interacted with incoming farmers at Grotta dell'Uzzo, resulting in a mixed economy and diet for a brief interlude at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.
KW - Biological sciences
KW - Evolutionary biology
KW - Paleobiology
KW - Paleogenetics
U2 - 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104244
DO - 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104244
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129513849
VL - 25
JO - iScience
JF - iScience
SN - 2589-0042
IS - 5
M1 - 104244
ER -