德国马克斯普朗克研究所Johannes Krause、Wolfgang Haak和Philipp W. Stockhammer研究组合作揭示了新石器时代至青铜时代安纳托利亚、北黎凡特和南高加索地区种族的基因史。相关论文发表在2020年5月28日出版的《细胞》杂志上。
研究人员对新石器时代晚期到青铜时代晚期110个古代近东个体的全基因组数据进行了分析，这一时期的特征是近东地区区域之间存在强烈的相互作用。研究发现，安纳托利亚北部/中部和南高加索地区第6个千年BCE人口在遗传谱系上拥有共同的祖先，该祖先是在新石器时代的西安纳托利亚和今天的南高加索地区/萨格罗斯地区之间形成的。
在石器时代晚期和/或青铜时代早期，北黎凡特人基因库的一半以上被替换；而在安纳托利亚其余部分和南部高加索地区，研究人员发现仅具有短暂基因流的遗传连续性。此外，研究人员还揭示了青铜时代晚期北黎凡特遗传特异的个体。总体而言，这项研究揭示了多维的人口动态随着时间而变化，从新石器时代的广泛融合到青铜时代晚期全球化过程中的远距离迁移。
附：英文原文
Title: Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant, and Southern Caucasus
Author: Eirini Skourtanioti, Yilmaz S. Erdal, Marcella Frangipane, Francesca Balossi Restelli, K. Aslhan Yener, Frances Pinnock, Paolo Matthiae, Rana zbal, Ulf-Dietrich Schoop, Farhad Guliyev, Tufan Akhundov, Bertille Lyonnet, Emily L. Hammer, Selin E. Nugent, Marta Burri, Gunnar U. Neumann, Sandra Penske, Tara Ingman, Murat Akar, Rula Shafiq, Giulio Palumbi, Stefanie Eisenmann, Marta D’Andrea, Adam B. Rohrlach, Christina Warinner, Choongwon Jeong, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause
Issue&Volume: 2020/05/28
Abstract: Here, we report genome-wide data analyses from 110 ancient Near Eastern individualsspanning the Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age, a period characterized by intenseinterregional interactions for the Near East. We find that 6th millennium BCE populations of North/Central Anatolia and the Southern Caucasus sharedmixed ancestry on a genetic cline that formed during the Neolithic between WesternAnatolia and regions in today’s Southern Caucasus/Zagros. During the Late Chalcolithicand/or the Early Bronze Age, more than half of the Northern Levantine gene pool wasreplaced, while in the rest of Anatolia and the Southern Caucasus, we document geneticcontinuity with only transient gene flow. Additionally, we reveal a genetically distinctindividual within the Late Bronze Age Northern Levant. Overall, our study uncoversmultiple scales of population dynamics through time, from extensive admixture duringthe Neolithic period to long-distance mobility within the globalized societies ofthe Late Bronze Age.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.044
Source: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30509-2