Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

• DOI: 10.1126/science.abq0762
• Publication Date: 2022-08-25T17:58:57Z
• Authors: Iosif Lazaridis; Songül Alpaslan-R...; Ayşe Acar; Ayşen Açıkkol; Anagnostis Agelar...; Levon Aghikyan; Uğur Akyüz; Desislava Andreeva; Gojko Andrijašević; Dragana Antonović; Ian Armit; Alper Atmaca; Pavel Avetisyan; Ahmet İhsan Aytek; Krum Bacvarov; Ruben Badalyan; Stefan Bakardzhiev; Jacqueline Balen; Lorenc Bejko; Rebecca Bernardos; Andreas Bertsatos; Hanifi Biber; Ahmet Bilir; Mario Bodružić; Michelle Bonogofsky; Clive Bonsall; Dušan Borić; Nikola Borovinić; Guillermo Bravo M...; Katharina Buttinger; Kim Callan; Francesca Candilio; Mario Carić; Olivia Cheronet; Stefan Chohadzhiev; Maria-Eleni Chova...; Stella Chryssoulaki; Ion Ciobanu; Natalija Čondić; Mihai Constantinescu; Emanuela Cristiani; Brendan J. Culleton; Elizabeth Curtis; Jack Davis; Ruben Davtyan; Tatiana I. Demcenco; Valentin Dergachev; Zafer Derin; Sylvia Deskaj; Seda Devejyan; Vojislav Djordjević; Kellie Sara Duffe...; Laurie R. Eccles; Nedko Elenski; Atilla Engin; Nihat Erdoğan; Sabiha Erir-Pazarcı; Daniel M. Fernandes; Matthew Ferry; Suzanne Freilich; Alin Frînculeasa; Michael L. Galaty; Beatriz Gamarra; Boris Gasparyan; Bisserka Gaydarska; Elif Genç; Timur Gültekin; Serkan Gündüz; Tamás Hajdu; Volker Heyd; Suren Hobosyan; Nelli Hovhannisyan; Iliya Iliev; Lora Iliev; Stanislav Iliev; İlkay İvgin; Ivor Janković; Lence Jovanova; Panagiotis Karkanas; Berna Kavaz-Kındı...; Esra Hilal Kaya; Denise Keating; Douglas J. Kennett; Seda Deniz Kesici; Anahit Khudaverdyan; Krisztián Kiss; Sinan Kılıç; Paul Klostermann; Sinem Kostak Boca...; Saša Kovačević; Marta Krenz-Niedbała; Maja Krznarić Škr...; Rovena Kurti; Pasko Kuzman; Ann Marie Lawson; Catalin Lazar; Krassimir Leshtakov; Thomas E. Levy; Ioannis Liritzis; Kirsi O. Lorentz; Sylwia Łukasik; Matthew Mah; Swapan Mallick; Kirsten Mandl; Kristine Martiros...; Roger Matthews; Wendy Matthews; Kathleen McSweeney; Varduhi Melikyan; Adam Micco; Megan Michel; Lidija Milašinović; Alissa Mittnik; Janet M. Monge; Georgi Nekhrizov; Rebecca Nicholls; Alexey G. Nikitin; Vassil Nikolov; Mario Novak; Iñigo Olalde; Jonas Oppenheimer; Anna Osterholtz; Celal Özdemir; Kadir Toykan Özdoğan; Nurettin Öztürk; Nikos Papadimitriou; Niki Papakonstant...; Anastasia Papatha...; Lujana Paraman; Evgeny G. Paskary; Nick Patterson; Ilian Petrakiev; Levon Petrosyan; Vanya Petrova; Anna Philippa-Tou...; Ashot Piliposyan; Nada Pocuca Kuzman; Hrvoje Potrebica; Bianca Preda-Bălă...; Zrinka Premužić; T. Douglas Price; Lijun Qiu; Siniša Radović; Kamal Raeuf Aziz; Petra Rajić Šikanjić; Kamal Rasheed Raheem; Sergei Razumov; Amy Richardson; Jacob Roodenberg; Rudenc Ruka; Victoria Russeva; Mustafa Şahin; Ayşegül Şarbak; Emre Savaş; Constanze Schattke; Lynne Schepartz; Tayfun Selçuk; Ayla Sevim-Erol; Michel Shamoon-Pour; Henry M. Shephard; Athanasios Sideris; Angela Simalcsik; Hakob Simonyan; Vitalij Sinika; Kendra Sirak; Ghenadie Sirbu; Mario Šlaus; Andrei Soficaru; Bilal Söğüt; Arkadiusz Sołtysiak; Çilem Sönmez-Sözer; Maria Stathi; Martin Steskal; Kristin Stewardson; Sharon Stocker; Fadime Suata-Alpa...; Alexander Suvorov; Anna Szécsényi-Nagy; Tamás Szeniczey; Nikolai Telnov; Strahil Temov; Nadezhda Todorova; Ulsi Tota; Gilles Touchais; Sevi Triantaphyllou; Atila Türker; Marina Ugarković; Todor Valchev; Fanica Veljanovska; Zlatko Videvski; Cristian Virag; Anna Wagner; Sam Walsh; Piotr Włodarczak; J. Noah Workman; Aram Yardumian; Evgenii Yarovoy; Alper Yener Yavuz; Hakan Yılmaz; Fatma Zalzala; Anna Zettl; Zhao Zhang; Rafet Çavuşoğlu; Nadin Rohland; Ron Pinhasi; David Reich
• Keywords: Mesopotamia; Ancient DNA

We present the first ancient DNA data from Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, Northwestern Zagros, along with Armenia. show that these neighboring populations were formed through admixture pre-Neolithic sources related to Anatolian, Caucasus, Levantine hunter-gatherers, forming a continuum ancestry mirroring geography West Asia. By analyzing Pottery Anatolia, we former derived between Mesopotamian-related local Epipaleolithic-related sources, but latter experienced additional Levantine-related gene flow, thus documenting at least two pulses migration Fertile Crescent heartland early farmers Anatolia.