Between fishing and farming: palaeogenomic analyses reveal cross-cultural interaction

[Riverman]

This paper:

Between fishing and farming: palaeogenomic analyses reveal cross-cultural interactions triggered by the arrival of the Neolithic in the Danube Gorges

Summary

While early Neolithic populations in Europe were largely descended from early Aegean farmers, there is also evidence of episodic gene flow from local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers into early Neolithic communities. Exactly how and where this occurred is still unknown. Here we report direct evidence for admixture between the two groups at the Danube Gorges in Serbia. Analysis of palaeogenomes recovered from skeletons revealed that second-generation mixed individuals were buried amidst individuals whose ancestry was either exclusively Aegean Neolithic or exclusively local Mesolithic. The mixed ancestry is also reflected in a corresponding mosaic of grave goods. With its deep sequence of occupation and its unique dwellings that suggest at least semi-sedentary occupation since the late Mesolithic, the area of the Danube Gorges has been at the center of the debate about the contribution of Mesolithic societies to the Neolithisation of Europe. As suggested by our data, which were processed exclusively with uncertainty-aware bioinformatic tools, it may have been precisely in such contexts that close interactions between these societies were established, and Mesolithic ancestry and cultural elements were assimilated.

Still a preprint but the data is now available.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/...512v1.full

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB47916

Also: https://genarchivist.com/showthread.php?...6#pid10296

Provides, as far as I can see, only mtDNA? Has anyone taken a look at the yDNA from these samples?

[Pribislav]

VLASA37; 6767-6461 BC; Vlasac, Serbia; Iron Gates_HG; R1b1b1a1-V2219>V88>PF6343>PF6287>pre-BY17643

7 derived and 73 ancestral SNPs.

This is the oldest BY17643 sample to date, and the first one from Iron Gates. Seven of eight previously published samples in this clade are from Ukraine Neolithic, while one Late IA sample is from Croatia.