Interactions between earliest Linearbandkeramik farmers and central European hunter gatherers at the dawn of European Neolithization.

ABSTRACT: Archaeogenetic research over the last decade has demonstrated that European Neolithic farmers (ENFs) were descended primarily from Anatolian Neolithic farmers (ANFs). ENFs, including early Neolithic central European Linearbandkeramik (LBK) farming communities, also harbored ancestry from European Mesolithic hunter gatherers (WHGs) to varying extents, reflecting admixture between ENFs and WHGs. However, the timing and other details of this process are still imperfectly understood. In this report, we provide a bioarchaeological analysis of three individuals interred at the Brunn 2 site of the Brunn am Gebirge-Wolfholz archeological complex, one of the oldest LBK sites in central Europe. Two of the individuals had a mixture of WHG-related and ANF-related ancestry, one of them with approximate

SUBMITTER: Nikitin AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6925266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature