Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula

Saupe, Tina; Montinaro, Francesco; Scaggion, Cinzia; Carrara, Nicola; Kivisild, Toomas; D’Atanasio, Eugenia; Hui, Ruoyun; Solnik, Anu; Lebrasseur, Ophélie; Larson, Greger; Alessandri, Luca; Arienzo, Ilenia; Angelis, Flavio De; Rolfo, Mario Federico; Skeates, Robin; Silvestri, Letizia; Beckett, Jessica; Talamo, Sahra; Dolfini, Andrea; Miari, Monica; Metspalu, Mait; Benazzi, Stefano; Capelli, Cristian; Pagani, Luca; Scheib, Christiana L.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.022

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“…However, with the increase of ancient samples examined, subtle differences between Central-West and Central-East Europe started to emerge, with samples from Western and Eastern Europe forming two distinct clusters in the PCA (Fig. 2C) (Olalde et al 2015;Rivollat et al 2020;Marcus et al 2020;Saupe et al 2021). F4 statistics and related method (qpAdm) showed that this separation is possibly due to different amounts of ancestry related to WHG.…”

Section: Neolithic and Copper Agementioning

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Through 40,000 years of human presence in Southern Europe: the Italian case study

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The Italian Peninsula, a natural pier across the Mediterranean Sea, witnessed intricate population events since the very beginning of the human occupation in Europe. In the last few years, an increasing number of modern and ancient genomes from the area have been published by the international research community. This genomic perspective started unveiling the relevance of Italy to understand the post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) re-peopling of Europe, the earlier phase of the Neolithic westward migrations, and its linking role between Eastern and Western Mediterranean areas after the Iron Age. However, many open questions are still waiting for more data to be addressed in full. With this review, we summarize the current knowledge emerging from the available ancient Italian individuals and, by re-analysing them all at once, we try to shed light on the avenues future research in the area should cover. In particular, open questions concern (1) the fate of pre-Villabruna Europeans and to what extent their genomic components were absorbed by the post-LGM hunter-gatherers; (2) the role of Sicily and Sardinia before LGM; (3) to what degree the documented genetic structure within the Early Neolithic settlers can be described as two separate migrations; (4) what are the population events behind the marked presence of an Iranian Neolithic-like component in Bronze Age and Iron Age Italian and Southern European samples.

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“…This could possibly depend on the small sample size of the available ancient populations, combined with the relatively low quality of genotype and sequence data, not having enough power to recover the subtle differences between the two Neolithic founder populations. However, with the increase of ancient samples examined, subtle differences between Central-West and Central-East Europe started to emerge, with samples from Western and Eastern Europe forming two distinct clusters in Principal Component Analyses (PCA, Figure 2C) [11,28,30,31]. F4 statistics and related methods (qpAdm) showed that this separation is possibly due to different amounts of ancestry related to WHG.…”

Section: Neolithic and Copper Agementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also Sardinia and Sicily received this ancestry through the expansion of the Bell Beaker complex after ~4,459 ya [12,39]. More specifically, the timing of the Steppe-related ancestry arrival in Italy was a central topic of a recent study, examining human remains from Northeastern and Central Italy dated to the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age [31]. As a confirmation of other Central European studies [37], they found a gradual increase in such ancestry over time, with the first appearance in Early Bronze Age Italians (Italian Bell Beaker ~4,000 ya [37], Italian Remedello ~3,900 ya [33], and Grottina dei Covoloni del Broion dated ~3,800 [31].…”

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“…More specifically, the timing of the Steppe-related ancestry arrival in Italy was a central topic of a recent study, examining human remains from Northeastern and Central Italy dated to the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age [31]. As a confirmation of other Central European studies [37], they found a gradual increase in such ancestry over time, with the first appearance in Early Bronze Age Italians (Italian Bell Beaker ~4,000 ya [37], Italian Remedello ~3,900 ya [33], and Grottina dei Covoloni del Broion dated ~3,800 [31]. Moreover, Saupe and colleagues retraced the arrival of the Steppe-related ancestry in Northeastern Italy as early as 3,900 ya and in Central Italy as early as 3,550 ya.…”

Section: Bronze Agementioning

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“…Specifically, we downloaded the 1240K+HO dataset from Dr David Reich laboratory, which comprises present-day and ancient DNA data (version V42.4; https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/allen-ancient-dna-resource-aadr-downloadable-genotypespresent-day-and-ancient-dna-data [2,7,18,23,27,28,33,[35][36][37][38]40,50,51,). In addition, we added: (i) Bronze Age Southern Levant DNA data [105]; (ii) ancient DNA data from the Balearic Islands, Sicily, and Sardinia [12]; (iii) ancient samples from Sardinia spanning the Middle Neolithic to present days [11]; (iv) the Italian Chalcolithic and Bronze Age samples [31]; (v) the genotypes of an Italian hunter-gatherer from the Late Epigravettian site of Riparo Tagliente dated around 17,000 years ago [20].…”

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The Italian Peninsula, a natural pier across the Mediterranean Sea, witnessed intricate population events since the very beginning of human occupation in Europe. In the last few years, an increasing number of modern and ancient genomes from the area has been published by the international research community. This genomic perspective started unveiling the relevance of Italy to understand the post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) re-peopling of Europe, the earlier phase of the Neolithic westward migrations, and its linking role between Eastern and Western Mediterranean areas after the Iron Age. However many open questions are still waiting for more data to be addressed in full. With this review, we summarize the current knowledge emerging from the available ancient Italian individuals and, by re-analysing them all at once, we try to shed light on the avenues future research in the area should cover. In particular, open questions concern i) the fate of pre-Villabruna Europeans and to what extent their genomic components were absorbed by the post-LGM hunter-gatherers; ii) the role of Sicily and Sardinia before LGM; iii) to what degree the documented genetic structure within the Early Neolithic settlers can be described as two separate migrations; iv) what are the population events behind the marked presence of an Iranian Neolithic-like component in Bronze Age and Iron Age Italian and Southern European samples.

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Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula

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Through 40,000 years of human presence in Southern Europe: the Italian case study

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