Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe

Pere Gelabert; Penny Bickle; Daniela Hofmann; Maria Teschler-Nicola; Alexandra Anders; Xin Huang; Michelle Hämmerle; Iñigo Olalde; Romain Fournier; Harald Ringbauer; Ali Akbari; Olivia Cheronet; Iosif Lazaridis; Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht; Daniel Fernandes; Katharina Buttinger; Kim Callan; Francesca Francesca; Guillermo Bravo; Elizabeth Curtis; Matthew Ferry; Denise Keating; Suzanne Freilich; Aisling Kearns; Eadaoin Harney; Anne Marie Lawson; Kirsten Mandl; Megan Michel; Victoria Oberreiter; Brina Zagorc; Jonas Oppenheimer; Susanna Sawyer; Constanze Schattke; Kadir Toykan Ozdogan; Lijun Qiu; J. Noah  Workman; Fatma Zalzala; Swapan Mallick; Mallick Mah; Adam Micco; Franz Pieler; Juraj  Pavuk; Alena Šefčáková; Catalin Lazar; Rastko Vasic; Andrej Starovic; Marija Djuric; Maja Krznarić Škrivanko; Mario Šlaus; Željka Bedić; Friederike Novotny; László Szabó; Orsolya Cserpák-Laczi; Tamara Hága; Zsigmond Hajdú; Pavel Mirea; Mirea Gyöngyvér Nagy; Zsuzsanna Virág; Attila Virág; László Horváth; Katalin Biró; László Domboróczki; Tamás Szeniczey; János Jakucs; Márta Szelekovszky; Farkas Zoltán; Sándor Sztáncsuj; Krisztián Tóth; Piroska Csengeri; Ildikó Pap; Róbert Patay; Anđelka Putica; Branislav Vasov; Bálint Havasi; Katalin Sebők; Pál Raczky; Gabriella Lovász; Zdeněk Tvrdý; Nadin Rohland; Mario Novak; Matej Ruttkay; Maria Krošláková; Jozef  Bátora; Ivan Cheben; Dušan Borić; János Dani; Martin Kuhlwilm; Pier Francesco Palamara; Tamás Hajdu; Ron Pinhasi; David Reich

doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z

Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe

Pere Gelabert^*, Penny Bickle, Daniela Hofmann, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Alexandra Anders, Xin Huang, Michelle Hämmerle, Iñigo Olalde, Romain Fournier, Harald Ringbauer, Ali Akbari, Olivia Cheronet, Iosif Lazaridis, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Daniel Fernandes, Katharina Buttinger, Kim Callan, Francesca Francesca, Guillermo Bravo, Elizabeth CurtisMatthew Ferry, Denise Keating, Suzanne Freilich, Aisling Kearns, Eadaoin Harney, Anne Marie Lawson, Kirsten Mandl, Megan Michel, Victoria Oberreiter, Brina Zagorc, Jonas Oppenheimer, Susanna Sawyer, Constanze Schattke, Kadir Toykan Ozdogan, Lijun Qiu, J. Noah Workman, Fatma Zalzala, Swapan Mallick, Mallick Mah, Adam Micco, Franz Pieler, Juraj Pavuk, Alena Šefčáková, Catalin Lazar, Rastko Vasic, Andrej Starovic, Marija Djuric, Maja Krznarić Škrivanko, Mario Šlaus, Željka Bedić, Friederike Novotny, László Szabó, Orsolya Cserpák-Laczi, Tamara Hága, Zsigmond Hajdú, Pavel Mirea, Mirea Gyöngyvér Nagy, Zsuzsanna Virág, Attila Virág, László Horváth, Katalin Biró, László Domboróczki, Tamás Szeniczey, János Jakucs, Márta Szelekovszky, Farkas Zoltán, Sándor Sztáncsuj, Krisztián Tóth, Piroska Csengeri, Ildikó Pap, Róbert Patay, Anđelka Putica, Branislav Vasov, Bálint Havasi, Katalin Sebők, Pál Raczky, Gabriella Lovász, Zdeněk Tvrdý, Nadin Rohland, Mario Novak, Matej Ruttkay, Maria Krošláková, Jozef Bátora, Ivan Cheben, Dušan Borić, János Dani, Martin Kuhlwilm, Pier Francesco Palamara, Tamás Hajdu, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich

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The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Neolithic communities were the first to spread farming across large parts of Europe. We report genome-wide data for 250 individuals: 178 individuals from whole-cemetery surveys of the Alföld Linearbankeramik Culture eastern LBK site of Polgár-Ferenci-hát, the western LBK site of Nitra Horné Krškany and the western LBK settlement and massacre site of Asparn-Schletz, as well as 48 LBK individuals from 16 other sites and 24 earlier Körös and Starčevo individuals from 17 more sites. Here we show a systematically higher percentage of western hunter-gatherer ancestry in eastern than in western LBK sites, showing that these two distinct LBK groups had different genetic trajectories. We find evidence for patrilocality, with more structure across sites in the male than in the female lines and a higher rate of within-site relatives for males. At Asparn-Schletz we find almost no relatives, showing that the massacred individuals were from a large population, not a small community.

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Article number	doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z
Journal	Nature Human Behaviour
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Publication status	Published - 29 Nov 2024

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Gelabert, P., Bickle, P., Hofmann, D., Teschler-Nicola, M., Anders, A., Huang, X., Hämmerle, M., Olalde, I., Fournier, R., Ringbauer, H., Akbari, A., Cheronet, O., Lazaridis, I., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Fernandes, D., Buttinger, K., Callan, K., Francesca, F., Bravo, G., ... Reich, D. (2024). Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe. Nature Human Behaviour, Article doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z

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