Comparing maternal genetic variation across two millennia reveals the demographic history of an ancient human population in southwest Turkey.

ABSTRACT: More than two decades of archaeological research at the site of Sagalassos, in southwest Turkey, resulted in the study of the former urban settlement in all its features. Originally settled in late Classical/early Hellenistic times, possibly from the later fifth century BCE onwards, the city of Sagalassos and its surrounding territory saw empires come and go. The Plague of Justinian in the sixth century CE, which is considered to have caused the death of up to a third of the population in Anatolia, and an earthquake in the seventh century CE, which is attested to have devastated many monuments in the city, may have severely affected the contemporary Sagalassos community. Human occupation continued, however, and Byzantine Sagalassos was eventually abandoned around 1200 CE. In order to inves

SUBMITTER: Ottoni C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785964 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature