Ancient mitochondrial diversity reveals population homogeneity in Neolithic Greece and identifies population dynamics along the Danubian expansion axis
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The aim of the study is to investigate mitochondrial diversity in Neolithic Greece and its relation to hunter-gatherers and farmers who populated the Danubian Neolithic expansion axis. We sequenced 42 mitochondrial palaeogenomes from Greece and analysed them together with European set of 328 mtDNA sequences dating from the Early to the Final Neolithic and 319 modern sequences. To test for population continuity through time in Greece, we use an original structured population continuity test that simulates DNA from different periods by explicitly considering the spatial and temporal dynamics of populations. We explore specific scenarios of the mode and tempo of the European Neolithic expansion along the Danubian axis applying spatially explicit simulations coupled with Approximate Bayesian Computation. We observe a striking genetic homogeneity for the maternal line throughout the Neolithic in Greece whereas population continuity is rejected between the Neolithic and present-day Greeks. Along the Danubian expansion axis, our best-fitting scenario supports a substantial decrease in mobility and an increasing local hunter-gatherer contribution to the gene-pool of farmers following the initial rapid Neolithic expansion. Οur original simulation approach models key demographic parameters rather than inferring them from fragmentary data leading to a better understanding of this important process in European prehistory.
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At least along the Danube route from Anatolia to Central Europe, the first stage of the Neolithic transition occurred through migration of farmers, followed by admixture with local hunter-gatherers in a second stage.
“At least along the Danube route from Anatolia to Central Europe, paleogenetic analyses have revealed that the first stage of the Neolithic transition occurred through the migration of FAs, followed by admixture with local HGs in a second stage, e.g., (32, 33, 35, 47).”
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- Silva, N. M., Kreutzer, S., Souleles, A., Triantaphyllou, S., Kotsakis, K., Urem-Kotsou, D., Halstead, P., Efstratiou, N., Kotsos, S., Karamitrou-Mentessidi, G., Adaktylou, F., Chondroyianni-Metoki, A., Pappa, M., Ziota, C., Sampson, A., Papathanasiou, A., Vitelli, K., Cullen, T., Kyparissi-Apostolika, N., Lanz, A. Z., Peters, J., Rio, J., Wegmann, D., Burger, J., Currat, M., & Papageorgopoulou, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Geneva (CH)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Democritus University of Thrace (GR)
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports (GR)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens (US)
- Bavarian Natural History Collections (DE)
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Currat, Mathias
- Papageorgopoulou, Christina
- ORCID
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2022-08-05
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 13474-13474
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9356035
- OpenAlex
- W4289886846
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 1.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- ETH Zürich Research Collection
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- European Commission (NSRF 2014-2020, 2014‐2020)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (182577, 156853)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
- European Regional Development Fund (NSRF 2014–2020, 2014-2020’)
- H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Keywords
- Neolithic Greece, mitochondrial DNA, Neolithic expansion, hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farmers, population continuity, population homogeneity, approximate Bayesian computation, prehistoric population dynamics, maternal lineage
- MeSH terms
- DNA, Ancient, Bayes Theorem, DNA, Mitochondrial, Europe, Genetics, Population, Greece, Humans, Mitochondria, Population Dynamics, History, Ancient
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