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Title: | The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest europe |
Author: | Zilhão, João, 1957- Majó, Tona Risch, Robert Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- Olalde, Iñigo Rohland, Nadin Mallick, Swapan Lipson, Mark Lazaridis, Iosif Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen Ferry, Matthew Harney, Eadaoin Michel, Megan Oppenheimer, Jonas Stewardson, Kristin Reich, David Patterson, Nick Stockhammer, Philipp W. Massy, Ken Kristiansen, Kristian Armit, Ian Barnes, Ian Haak, Wolfgang Prieto, Pilar Rojo Guerra, Manuel A. Serralongue, Joël Silva, Ana Maria Ríos, Patricia Modi, Alessandra Lomba Maurandi, Joaquín Garrido Pena, Rafael Francès i Farrè, Joan Bonsall, Laura Blasco, Concepción Bernabò Brea, Maria Avilés Fernández, Azucena Fernandes, Daniel Liesau, Corina Czene, András Lemercier, Olivier |
Keywords: | Ceràmica Neolític Arqueologia Pottery Neolithic period Archaeology |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Abstract: | From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled its expansion are a matter of long-standing debate, and there is support for both cultural diffusion and migration having a role in this process. Here we present genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 226 individuals associated with Beaker-complex artefacts. We detected limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and thus exclude migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, migration had a key role in the further dissemination of the Beaker complex. We document this phenomenon most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker complex introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry and was associated with the replacement of approximately 90% of Britain's gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe over the previous centuries. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1101/135962 |
It is part of: | Nature, 2018, vol. 555, p. 190-196 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/149229 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1101/135962 |
ISSN: | 0028-0836 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Història i Arqueologia) |
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