The female ancestor's tale: Long‐term matrilineal continuity in a nonisolated region of Tuscany

Leonardi, Michela; Sandionigi, Anna; Conzato, Annalisa; Vai, Stefania; Lari, Martina; Tassi, Francesca; Ghirotto, Silvia; Caramelli, David; Barbujani, Guido

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“…Local peculiarities have been highlighted by analyzing the mitogenome variation of specific regions, e.g. Marche, Piedmont, Tuscany and Sardinia 21,36,37,58 . However, a fine and exhaustive microgeographic characterization of other regions has yet to be conducted.…”

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“…Most of these studies were performed on a large geographic scale producing low-definition results and mainly focusing on modern populations. As for microgeographic studies on Central Italy, only Etruscans (in Tuscany) and Picentes (in Marche) were the target of specific analyses that highlighted their genetic affinity with the current inhabitants [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] . However, Umbria, another crucial region in Central Italy, is still unexplored.…”

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The mitogenome portrait of Umbria in Central Italy as depicted by contemporary inhabitants and pre-Roman remains

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Umbria is located in Central Italy and took the name from its ancient inhabitants, the Umbri, whose origins are still debated. Here, we investigated the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation of 545 present-day Umbrians (with 198 entire mitogenomes) and 28 pre-Roman individuals (obtaining 19 ancient mtDNAs) excavated from the necropolis of Plestia. We found a rather homogeneous distribution of western Eurasian lineages across the region, with few notable exceptions. Contemporary inhabitants of the eastern part, delimited by the Tiber River and the Apennine Mountains, manifest a peculiar mitochondrial proximity to central-eastern Europeans, mainly due to haplogroups U4 and U5a, and an overrepresentation of J (30%) similar to the pre-Roman remains, also excavated in East Umbria. Local genetic continuities are further attested to by six terminal branches (H1e1, J1c3, J2b1, U2e2a, U8b1b1 and K1a4a) shared between ancient and modern mitogenomes. Eventually, we identified multiple inputs from various population sources that likely shaped the mitochondrial gene pool of ancient Umbri over time, since early Neolithic, including gene flows with central-eastern Europe. This diachronic mtDNA portrait of Umbria fits well with the genome-wide population structure identified on the entire peninsula and with historical sources that list the Umbri among the most ancient Italic populations. Due to its acknowledged potential, archaeogenetics is broadly applied to study ancient civilizations, demographic histories and migration events. Markedly, advances in high-throughput genotyping technology have highlighted how the present-day genetic variation of human populations is the outcome of past population movements. In prehistoric times, the Mediterranean area experienced three significant migration waves whose legacy is retrieved in the mitochondrial pool of modern and ancient populations: the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers who survived and re-expanded from glacial refuges, the Neolithic farming societies that moved from the East, and the herders from the Pontic-Caspian steppes inaugurating the Bronze Age 1-13 .

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“…Genetic demography is the branch of population genetics aiming at inferring changes in the size of one or more given populations from genetic data. It is widely used to reconstruct the demographic trajectories through time (e.g., Leonardi, Barbujani and Manica 2017;Miller, Manica and Amos 2018) or to test which demographic model within a set of explicit ones better fits the observed data (e.g., Leonardi et al 2018;Vai et al 2019).…”

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Genetic demography: What does it mean and how to interpret it, with a case study on the Neolithic transition

Leonardi¹,

Barbujani²,

Manica³

2021

Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: DFG Center for Advanced Studies

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The present work describes the basic principles underlying demographic reconstructions from genetic data, and reviews the studies using such methods with respect to the Neolithic Demographic Transition. It is intended as a tool for scholars outside the field of population genetics (e.g., archaeologists, anthropologists, etc.) to better understand the significance and intrinsic limitations of genetic demography, and to help integrate its results within the broader context of the reconstruction of the human past.

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Population-genetic history of the Etruscans origin

Konkov¹

2022

Bulletin of the MSRU (History and Political Science)

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АннотацияЦель. Установить место прародины этрусков при анализе существующих данных генетики. Процедура и методы. Сделан анализ данных, опубликованных в специальной литературе и полученных при помощи разных биоинформационных алгоритмов. Результаты. Оспорены выводы об однозначно автохтонном происхождении этрусков в Италии. Хотя автор согласен, что генофонд этрусков сформирован теми же популяционными процессами, что и у остального населения Апеннинского полуострова, и с тем, что в генофонде этрусков не существует следа особой миграции из Эгейского бассейна на рубеже бронзы и железа, но существуют возможность миграции предков этрусков в более ранние эпохи. Теоретическая и/или практическая значимость. Предложены 3 модели миграции предков этрусков из Эгейского региона и Малой Азии: 1) в раннем неолите, 2) позднем неолите и 3) конце эпохи бронзы. Обозначена важность более подробного изучения миграции эгейского населения в Сицилию во II тыс. до н. э. и перемещения населения Кумтепе на Апеннинский полуостров в конце неолита. 1

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The female ancestor's tale: Long‐term matrilineal continuity in a nonisolated region of Tuscany

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The mitogenome portrait of Umbria in Central Italy as depicted by contemporary inhabitants and pre-Roman remains

The mitogenome portrait of Umbria in Central Italy as depicted by contemporary inhabitants and pre-Roman remains

Genetic demography: What does it mean and how to interpret it, with a case study on the Neolithic transition

Population-genetic history of the Etruscans origin

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