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Título: | Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney |
Autor(es): | Dulias, Katharina Foody, M George B Justeau, Pierre Silva, Marina Martiniano, Rui Oteo-García, Gonzalo Fichera, Alessandro Rodrigues, Simão Gandini, Francesca Meynert, Alison Donnelly, Kevin Aitman, Timothy J Chamberlain, Andrew Lelong, Olivia Kozikowski, George Powlesland, Dominic Waddington, Clive Mattiangeli, Valeria Bradley, Daniel G Bryk, Jaroslaw Soares, Pedro Wilson, James F Wilson, Graeme Moore, Hazel Pala, Maria Edwards, Ceiridwen J Richards, Martin B |
Palavras-chave: | Archaeology DNA, Ancient DNA, Mitochondrial England Europe Female Fossils Gene Pool Genome, Human Genomics Haplotypes History, Ancient History, Medieval Human Migration Humans Ireland Male Paternal Inheritance Scotland ancient DNA Orkney Neolithic Bronze Age genome-wide |
Data: | 2022 |
Editora: | National Academy of Sciences |
Revista: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) |
Citação: | Dulias, K., Foody, M. G. B., Justeau, P., Silva, M., Martiniano, R., Oteo-García, G., … The Scottish Genomes Partnership. (2022, February 7). Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108001119 |
Resumo(s): | Orkney was a major cultural center during the Neolithic, 3800 to 2500 BC. Farming flourished, permanent stone settlements and chambered tombs were constructed, and long-range contacts were sustained. From ∼3200 BC, the number, density, and extravagance of settlements increased, and new ceremonial monuments and ceramic styles, possibly originating in Orkney, spread across Britain and Ireland. By ∼2800 BC, this phenomenon was waning, although Neolithic traditions persisted to at least 2500 BC. Unlike elsewhere in Britain, there is little material evidence to suggest a Beaker presence, suggesting that Orkney may have developed along an insular trajectory during the second millennium BC. We tested this by comparing new genomic evidence from 22 Bronze Age and 3 Iron Age burials in northwest Orkney with Neolithic burials from across the archipelago. We identified signals of inward migration on a scale unsuspected from the archaeological record: As elsewhere in Bronze Age Britain, much of the population displayed significant genome-wide ancestry deriving ultimately from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe. However, uniquely in northern and central Europe, most of the male lineages were inherited from the local Neolithic. This suggests that some male descendants of Neolithic Orkney may have remained distinct well into the Bronze Age, although there are signs that this had dwindled by the Iron Age. Furthermore, although the majority of mitochondrial DNA lineages evidently arrived afresh with the Bronze Age, we also find evidence for continuity in the female line of descent from Mesolithic Britain into the Bronze Age and even to the present day. |
Tipo: | Artigo |
Descrição: | Raw sequencing reads of ancient samples produced for this study have been deposited in the European Nucleotide Archive under accession no. PRJEB46830. Modern mitochondrial genomes generated as part of this study have been deposited in GenBank, accession nos. MZ846240 to MZ848095. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/80162 |
DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.2108001119 |
ISSN: | 0027-8424 |
e-ISSN: | 1091-6490 |
Versão da editora: | https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2108001119 |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso restrito UMinho |
Aparece nas coleções: | CBMA - Artigos/Papers |
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