Palaeogenomic and biostatistical analysis of ancient DNA data from Mesolithic and Neolithic skeletal remainsPalaeogenomic data have illuminated several important periods of human past with surprising im- plications for our understanding of human evolution. One of the major changes in human prehistory was Neolithisation, the introduction of the farming lifestyle to human societies. Farming originated in the Fertile Crescent approximately 10,000 years BC and in Europe it was associated with a major population turnover. Ancient DNA from Anatolia, the presumed source area of the demic spread to Europe, and the Balkans, one of the first known contact zones between local hunter-gatherers and incoming farmers, was obtained from roughly contemporaneous human remains dated to ∼6 th mil- lennium BC. This new unprecedented dataset comprised of 86 full mitogenomes, five whole genomes (7.1–3.7x coverage) and 20 high coverage (7.6–93.8x) genomic samples. The Aegean Neolithic pop- ulation, relatively homogeneous on both sides of the Aegean Sea, was positively proven to be a core zone for demic spread of farmers to Europe. The farmers were shown to migrate through the central Balkans and while the local sedentary hunter-gathers of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges seemed to be isolated from the farmers coming from the south, the individuals of the Aegean origin infiltrated the nearby hunter-gatherer community of Lepenski Vir. The intensity of infiltration increased over time and even though there was an impact of the Danubian hunter-gatherers on genetic variation of Neolithic central Europe, the Aegean ancestry dominated during the introduction of farming to the continent.
https://publications.ub.uni-mainz.de/theses/frontdoor.php?source_opus=100001355Akt20 Aktopraklık Neolithic 6493-6418 calBC I2-M438
Bar11 Barcın Neolithic ∼6,600-6,000 calBC E1b1b1-M35.1
Bar31 Barcın Neolithic 6419-6238 calBC G2a2b-L32
Lepe45 Lepenski Vir Transition 6588-6395 calBC I2a2a-L34
Lepe18 Lepenski Vir Transition ∼6,200-6,000/5,950 calBC I2-M438
Lepe39 Lepenski Vir Transition ∼6,200-6,000/5,950 calBC C2c-P53.1
Lepe52 Lepenski Vir Neolithic 6005-5845 calBC G2a-P15
Vlasa37 Vlasac Late Mesolithic 6767-6461 calBC R1b1c-PF6279
Vlasa4 Vlasac Late Mesolithic ∼7,400-6,200 calBC I2-M438
Vlasa10 Vlasac Late Mesolithic ∼7,400-6,200 calBC R1-P294
Vlasa32 Vlasac Late Mesolithic ∼7,400-6,200 calBC R1-P294
Vlasa44 Vlasac Late Mesolithic ∼7,400-6,200 calBC I2-M438