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The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant.
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Lily Agranat-TamirDepartment of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel; Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel.
Shamam WaldmanBraun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Mario A S MartinInstitute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
David GokhmanDepartment of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
Nadav MisholDepartment of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
Tzilla EshelThe Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
Olivia CheronetDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Nadin RohlandDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Swapan MallickDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Nicole AdamskiDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Ann Marie LawsonDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Matthew MahDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Megan MichelDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jonas OppenheimerDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Kristin StewardsonDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Francesca CandilioSchool of Archaeology and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Soprintendenza ABAP per la città metropolitana di Cagliari e le province di Oristano e Sud Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy.
Denise KeatingSchool of Archaeology and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Beatriz GamarraSchool of Archaeology and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain; Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Àrea de Prehistòria, Tarragona, Spain.
Shay TzurBraun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Mario NovakInstitute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: mario.novak@inantro.hr.
Rachel KalisherJoukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
Shlomit BecharThe Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel.
Vered EshedIsrael Antiquities Authority, P.O.B 586, Jerusalem 91004, Israel.
Douglas J KennettDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Marina FaermanLaboratory of Bioanthropology and Ancient DNA, Institute of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel.
Naama Yahalom-MackThe Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel.
Janet M MongeUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Yehuda GovrinThe Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem 9410125, Israel.
Yigal ErelThe Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
Benjamin YakirDepartment of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel.
Ron PinhasiDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: ron.pinhasi@univie.ac.at.
Shai CarmiBraun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: shai.carmi@mail.huji.ac.il.
Israel FinkelsteinInstitute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel. Electronic address: fink2@tauex.tau.ac.il.
Liran CarmelDepartment of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel. Electronic address: liran.carmel@huji.ac.il.
David ReichDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: reich@genetics.med.harvard.edu.
Funding
Population mixture in evolutionary and medical geneticsR01GM100233 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PATTERSON, NICK J, REICH, DAVID E · 2012 to 2019
$2.7MHoward Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100233
Abstract
We report genome-wide DNA data for 73 individuals from five archaeological sites across the Bronze and Iron Ages Southern Levant. These individuals, who share the "Canaanite" material culture, can be modeled as descending from two sources: (1) earlier local Neolithic populations and (2) populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros or the Bronze Age Caucasus. The non-local contribution increased over time, as evinced by three outliers who can be modeled as descendants of recent migrants. We show evidence that different "Canaanite" groups genetically resemble each other more than other populations. We find that Levant-related modern populations typically have substantial ancestry coming from populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros and the Bronze Age Southern Levant. These groups also harbor ancestry from sources we cannot fully model with the available data, highlighting the critical role of post-Bronze-Age migrations into the region over the past 3,000 years.
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ArchaeologyDNA, AncientDNA, MitochondrialEthnicityGene FlowGenetics, PopulationGenetic VariationGenome, HumanGenomicsHaplotypesHistory, AncientHuman MigrationHumansMediterranean RegionMiddle EastSequence Analysis, DNADNA, AncientDNA, MitochondrialAbel Beth Maacahancient DNAarchaeologyBaq‛ahdemographic inferencegenetic ancestrypopulation geneticsTel MegiddoTel ShadudYehud
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