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T1 Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant
A1 Simões, Luciana G.
A1 Günther, Torsten
A1 Martínez-Sánchez, Rafael M.
A1 Vera-Rodríguez, Juan Carlos
A1 Iriarte Avilés, Eneko
A1 Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo
A1 Bokbot, Youssef
A1 Valdiosera Morales, Cristina Eugenia
A1 Jakobsson, Mattias
A1 Jakobsson
K1 Anthropology
K1 Archaeology
K1 Population genetics
K1 Arqueología
K1 Archaeology
K1 Genética
K1 Genetics
AB In northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400 years ago but what sparked that change remains unclear. Archaeological data support conflicting views: (1) that migrant European Neolithic farmers brought the new way of life to North Africa1,2,3 or (2) that local hunter-gatherers adopted technological innovations4,5. The latter view is also supported by archaeogenetic data6. Here we fill key chronological and archaeogenetic gaps for the Maghreb, from Epipalaeolithic to Middle Neolithic, by sequencing the genomes of nine individuals (to between 45.8- and 0.2-fold genome coverage). Notably, we trace 8,000 years of population continuity and isolation from the Upper Palaeolithic, via the Epipaleolithic, to some Maghrebi Neolithic farming groups. However, remains from the earliest Neolithic contexts showed mostly European Neolithic ancestry. We suggest that farming was introduced by European migrants and was then rapidly adopted by local groups. During the Middle Neolithic a new ancestry from the Levant appears in the Maghreb, coinciding with the arrival of pastoralism in the region, and all three ancestries blend together during the Late Neolithic. Our results show ancestry shifts in the Neolithization of northwestern Africa that probably mirrored a heterogeneous economic and cultural landscape, in a more multifaceted process than observed in other regions.
PB Springer Nature
SN 0028-0836
YR 2023
FD 2023-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7698
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7698
LA eng
NO This project was supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (to M.J.), Vetenskapsrådet (grant nos. 2018-05537 and 2022-04642 to M.J. and 2017-05267 to T.G.) and Ramón y Cajal (grant no. RYC2018-025223-I to C.V.). The Spanish–Moroccan archaeological team was supported by the European Research Council (no. ERC AdG 230561).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 01-may-2024