The Beaker Phenomenon and the Genomic transformation of Nortwest Europe

Olalde, Iñigo ... et al.; Haber Uriarte, María

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The Beaker Phenomenon and the Genomic transformation of Nortwest Europe

dc.contributor.author	Olalde, Iñigo ... et al.
dc.contributor.author	Haber Uriarte, María
dc.contributor.author	Haber Uriarte, María
dc.contributor.department	Prehistoria, Arqueología, Historia Antigua, Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-29T12:58:21Z
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dc.date.issued	2017-05-09
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dc.description.abstract	Bell Beaker pottery spread across western and central Europe beginning around 2750 BCE before disappearing between 2200–1800 BCE. The mechanism of its expansion is a topic of long-standing debate, with support for both cultural diffusion and human migration. We present new genome-wide ancient DNA data from 170 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 100 Beaker-associated individuals. In contrast to the Corded Ware Complex, which has previously been identified as arriving in central Europe following migration from the east, we observe limited genetic affinity between Iberian and central European Beaker Complex-associated individuals, and thus exclude migration as a significant mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, human migration did have an important role in the further dissemination of the Beaker Complex, which we document most clearly in Britain using data from 80 newly reported individuals dating to 3900–1200 BCE. British Neolithic farmers were genetically similar to contemporary populations in continental Europe and in particular to Neolithic Iberians, suggesting that a portion of the farmer ancestry in Britain came from the Mediterranean rather than the Danubian route of farming expansion. Beginning with the Beaker period, and continuing through the Bronze Age, all British individuals harboured high proportions of Steppe ancestry and were genetically closely related to Beaker-associated individuals from the Lower Rhine area. We use these observations to show that the spread of the Beaker Complex to Britain was mediated by migration from the continent that replaced >90% of Britain’s Neolithic gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the process that brought Steppe ancestry into central and northern Europe 400 years earlier.
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dc.identifier.citation	Nature, 2018, Vol. 555, pp. 190–196
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/135962
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0028-0836
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1476-4687
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/149625
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Nature Research	es
dc.relation	We are grateful for institutional support (grant RVO:67985912) from the Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences. G.K. was supported by Momentum Mobility Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [100713/Z/12/Z]. D.F. was supported by an Irish Research Council grant GOIPG/2013/36. P.W.S., J.K. and A.M. were supported by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (WIN project “Times of Upheaval”). C.L.-F. was supported by a grant from FEDER and Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (BFU2015-64699-P) of Spain. D.R. was supported by US National Science Foundation HOMINID grant BCS-1032255, US National Institutes of Health grant GM100233, and is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.	es
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