Nature Communications (Aug 2020)
Ancient genomes in South Patagonia reveal population movements associated with technological shifts and geography
- Nathan Nakatsuka,
- Pierre Luisi,
- Josefina M. B. Motti,
- Mónica Salemme,
- Fernando Santiago,
- Manuel D. D’Angelo del Campo,
- Rodrigo J. Vecchi,
- Yolanda Espinosa-Parrilla,
- Alfredo Prieto,
- Nicole Adamski,
- Ann Marie Lawson,
- Thomas K. Harper,
- Brendan J. Culleton,
- Douglas J. Kennett,
- Carles Lalueza-Fox,
- Swapan Mallick,
- Nadin Rohland,
- Ricardo A. Guichón,
- Graciela S. Cabana,
- Rodrigo Nores,
- David Reich
Affiliations
- Nathan Nakatsuka
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Pierre Luisi
- Departamento de Antropología, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
- Josefina M. B. Motti
- NEIPHPA-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
- Mónica Salemme
- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET)
- Fernando Santiago
- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET)
- Manuel D. D’Angelo del Campo
- NEIPHPA-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
- Rodrigo J. Vecchi
- CONICET—Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional del Sur
- Yolanda Espinosa-Parrilla
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Alfredo Prieto
- Universidad de Magallanes
- Nicole Adamski
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Ann Marie Lawson
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Thomas K. Harper
- Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
- Brendan J. Culleton
- Institutes for Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University
- Douglas J. Kennett
- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Carles Lalueza-Fox
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Swapan Mallick
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Nadin Rohland
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Ricardo A. Guichón
- NEIPHPA-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
- Graciela S. Cabana
- Molecular Anthropology Laboratories, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
- Rodrigo Nores
- Departamento de Antropología, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
- David Reich
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17656-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
How Indigenous populations in the southern tip of South America have changed over time has been unclear. Here the authors generate genome-wide data for 20 ancient individuals and examine how past migrations and admixture events correlate to geography and shifts in the archaeological record.