The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations

Florian Clemente; Martina Unterländer; Olga Dolgova; Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim; Francisco Coroado-Santos; Samuel Neuenschwander; Elissavet Ganiatsou; Diana I. Cruz Dávalos; Lucas Anchieri; Frédéric Michaud; Laura Winkelbach; Jens Blöcher; Yami Ommar Arizmendi Cárdenas; Bárbara Sousa da Mota; Eleni Kalliga; Angelos Souleles; Ioannis Kontopoulos; Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi; Olga Philaniotou; Adamantios Sampson; Dimitra Theodorou; Metaxia Tsipopoulou; Ioannis Akamatis; Paul Halstead; Kostas Kotsakis; Dushka Urem-Kotsou; Diamantis Panagiotopoulos; Christina Ziota; Sevasti Triantaphyllou; Olivier Delaneau; Jeffrey D. Jensen; J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar; Joachim Burger; Vitor C. Sousa; Oscar Lao; Anna Sapfo Malaspinas; Christina Papageorgopoulou

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.039

The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations

Florian Clemente, Martina Unterländer, Olga Dolgova, Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim, Francisco Coroado-Santos, Samuel Neuenschwander, Elissavet Ganiatsou, Diana I. Cruz Dávalos, Lucas Anchieri, Frédéric Michaud, Laura Winkelbach, Jens Blöcher, Yami Ommar Arizmendi Cárdenas, Bárbara Sousa da Mota, Eleni Kalliga, Angelos Souleles, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi, Olga Philaniotou, Adamantios SampsonDimitra Theodorou, Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Ioannis Akamatis, Paul Halstead, Kostas Kotsakis, Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Christina Ziota, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, Olivier Delaneau, Jeffrey D. Jensen, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Joachim Burger, Vitor C. Sousa, Oscar Lao, Anna Sapfo Malaspinas, Christina Papageorgopoulou

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The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Helladic (Mycenaean) cultures define the Bronze Age (BA) of Greece. Urbanism, complex social structures, craft and agricultural specialization, and the earliest forms of writing characterize this iconic period. We sequenced six Early to Middle BA whole genomes, along with 11 mitochondrial genomes, sampled from the three BA cultures of the Aegean Sea. The Early BA (EBA) genomes are homogeneous and derive most of their ancestry from Neolithic Aegeans, contrary to earlier hypotheses that the Neolithic-EBA cultural transition was due to massive population turnover. EBA Aegeans were shaped by relatively small-scale migration from East of the Aegean, as evidenced by the Caucasus-related ancestry also detected in Anatolians. In contrast, Middle BA (MBA) individuals of northern Greece differ from EBA populations in showing ∼50% Pontic-Caspian Steppe-related ancestry, dated at ca. 2,600-2,000 BCE. Such gene flow events during the MBA contributed toward shaping present-day Greek genomes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2565-2586.e21
Journal	Cell
Volume	184
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.039
State	Published - May 13 2021

Keywords

Anatolia
Bronze Age
Cycladic civilization
Greece
Helladic civilization
Minoan civilization
Mycenean civilization
ancient DNA
paleogenomics
population genetics

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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Clemente, F., Unterländer, M., Dolgova, O., Amorim, C. E. G., Coroado-Santos, F., Neuenschwander, S., Ganiatsou, E., Cruz Dávalos, D. I., Anchieri, L., Michaud, F., Winkelbach, L., Blöcher, J., Arizmendi Cárdenas, Y. O., Sousa da Mota, B., Kalliga, E., Souleles, A., Kontopoulos, I., Karamitrou-Mentessidi, G., Philaniotou, O., ... Papageorgopoulou, C. (2021). The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations. Cell, 184(10), 2565-2586.e21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.039

Clemente, F, Unterländer, M, Dolgova, O, Amorim, CEG, Coroado-Santos, F, Neuenschwander, S, Ganiatsou, E, Cruz Dávalos, DI, Anchieri, L, Michaud, F, Winkelbach, L, Blöcher, J, Arizmendi Cárdenas, YO, Sousa da Mota, B, Kalliga, E, Souleles, A, Kontopoulos, I, Karamitrou-Mentessidi, G, Philaniotou, O, Sampson, A, Theodorou, D, Tsipopoulou, M, Akamatis, I, Halstead, P, Kotsakis, K, Urem-Kotsou, D, Panagiotopoulos, D, Ziota, C, Triantaphyllou, S, Delaneau, O, Jensen, JD, Moreno-Mayar, JV, Burger, J, Sousa, VC, Lao, O, Malaspinas, AS & Papageorgopoulou, C 2021, 'The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations', Cell, vol. 184, no. 10, pp. 2565-2586.e21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.039

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