Genetic Genealogy & Ancient DNA (TITLES/ABSTRACTS)

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They changed the title on the upcoming Picenes paper and the wording of the abstract.

EAA2024: Abstract
Abstract is part of session #848:The archaeogenetics of ancient Italy: socio-cultural changes, interaction and mobility from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
Title & Content
Title:New insights in the population dynamics of the Italic Iron Age: archaeogenetic analysis of the Middle-Adriatic cultures.

Content:The Italic Iron Age (approximately 10th-3rd century BCE) was characterized by a mosaic of different cultural groups, thoroughly characterized by an archaeological perspective. While some of these ethnicities have been partially investigated from a genomic point of view (providing new insights into population dynamics) a comprehensive genetic portrait remains elusive, particularly for those populations residing along the mid-Adriatic coast. To better understand the evolution and history of Iron Age Italic populations, we focused our attention on the Picenes, a civilization that flourished along the Adriatic coasts of Central Italy from the 9th to the 3rd century BCE, until Roman colonization. The Picenes were composed of many local groups not necessarily related from a genetic perspective. We analyzed the genome of 81 ancient individuals buried in three different Iron Age necropolises located in Central Italy, two associated to the Picene culture (Novilara and Sirolo-Numana, 8th-5th century BCE) and one Etruscan necropolis (Monteriggioni/Colle di Val D’Elsa, 8th-6th century BCE). Our investigation unveiled genetic homogeneity not only among the two Picene sites, indicating extensive gene flow, but also between the Picenes and other contemporary populations, pointing to a common genetic origin of the Italic Iron Age ethnic groups. Despite this homogeneity, relevant genetic distinctions emerged between coeval Adriatic and Tyrrhenian populations, pointing to genetic contacts between the Adriatic coast of Italy and the Balkans and/or Northern Europe. Furthermore, the identification of genetic outliers (indicating foreign ancestries) within the cultures here analyzed suggests that the Italic Iron Age was characterized by a multicultural society where individuals with diverse genetic origins from across Europe coexisted.

Keywords:Italic Iron Age, Middle-Adriatic cultures, Picenes

https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/re...tract=3808