Nature Communications (Apr 2020)
Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland
- Anja Furtwängler,
- A. B. Rohrlach,
- Thiseas C. Lamnidis,
- Luka Papac,
- Gunnar U. Neumann,
- Inga Siebke,
- Ella Reiter,
- Noah Steuri,
- Jürgen Hald,
- Anthony Denaire,
- Bernadette Schnitzler,
- Joachim Wahl,
- Marianne Ramstein,
- Verena J. Schuenemann,
- Philipp W. Stockhammer,
- Albert Hafner,
- Sandra Lösch,
- Wolfgang Haak,
- Stephan Schiffels,
- Johannes Krause
Affiliations
- Anja Furtwängler
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen
- A. B. Rohrlach
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Thiseas C. Lamnidis
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Luka Papac
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Gunnar U. Neumann
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen
- Inga Siebke
- Department of Physical Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern
- Ella Reiter
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen
- Noah Steuri
- Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Bern
- Jürgen Hald
- Archaeological Office of the District of Constance
- Anthony Denaire
- Department of history of arts and Archaeology, University of Burgundy
- Bernadette Schnitzler
- Museum of Archaeology Strasbourg
- Joachim Wahl
- Institute for Archaeological Science, Palaeoanthropology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
- Marianne Ramstein
- Archaeological Service of the canton of Bern
- Verena J. Schuenemann
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen
- Philipp W. Stockhammer
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Albert Hafner
- Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Bern
- Sandra Lösch
- Department of Physical Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern
- Wolfgang Haak
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Stephan Schiffels
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Johannes Krause
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15560-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
European populations underwent strong genetic changes during the Neolithic. Here, Furtwängler et al. provide ancient nuclear and mitochondrial genomic data from the region of Switzerland during the end of the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age that reveal a complex genetic turnover during the arrival of steppe ancestry.
