Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in eleventh-century Al-Andalus.

ABSTRACT: Historical records document medieval immigration from North Africa to Iberia to create Islamic al-Andalus. Here, we present a low-coverage genome of an eleventh century CE man buried in an Islamic necropolis in Segorbe, near Valencia, Spain. Uniparental lineages indicate North African ancestry, but at the autosomal level he displays a mosaic of North African and European-like ancestries, distinct from any present-day population. Altogether, the genome-wide evidence, stable isotope results and the age of the burial indicate that his ancestry was ultimately a result of admixture between recently arrived Amazigh people (Berbers) and the population inhabiting the Peninsula prior to the Islamic conquest. We detect differences between our sample and a previously published group of contemporary i

SUBMITTER: Silva M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8438022 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature