Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Science. 2022 Aug 26;377(6609):982-987. doi: 10.1126/science.abq0762. Epub 2022 Aug 25.
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with the first data from Neolithic Armenia. We show that these and neighboring populations were formed through admixture of pre-Neolithic sources related to Anatolian, Caucasus, and Levantine hunter-gatherers, forming a Neolithic continuum of ancestry mirroring the geography of West Asia. By analyzing Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic populations of Anatolia, we show that the former were derived from admixture between Mesopotamian-related and local Epipaleolithic-related sources, but the latter experienced additional Levantine-related gene flow, thus documenting at least two pulses of migration from the Fertile Crescent heartland to the early farmers of Anatolia.
我们展示了来自美索不达米亚（土耳其东南部和伊拉克北部）、塞浦路斯和西北扎格罗斯的前陶器新石器时代以及亚美尼亚新石器时代的第一批古 DNA 数据。我们表明，这些和邻近的人群是通过与安纳托利亚、高加索和黎凡特的狩猎采集者有关的前新石器时代来源的混合形成的，形成了一个反映西亚地理的新石器时代祖先连续体。通过分析安纳托利亚的前陶器和陶器新石器时代的人群，我们表明前者是由与美索不达米亚相关的和与当地旧石器时代晚期相关的来源混合而成的，但后者经历了额外的与黎凡特相关的基因流，因此记录了至少两次从新月沃地中心地带向安纳托利亚早期农民的移民浪潮。
