Out-of-Anatolia: cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
Dilek Koptekin,
Ayça Aydoğan,
Cansu Karamurat
et al.
Abstract:Western Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. Using 30 new palaeogenomes from Anatolia c.8000-6000 BCE we describe the early Holocene genetic landscape of Western Anatolia, which reveals population continuity since the late Upper Pleistocene. Our findings indicate that the Neolithisation of Western Anatolia in the 7thmillennium BCE was a multifaceted process, characterised by the assimilation of Neolithic practices by indigenous groups a… Show more
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