Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe

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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Nature Human Behaviour
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2024-11-29
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z
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Forensic and Genetic Research
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Abstract

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.

Nature Human BehaviourVol. 9(1)
Eötvös Loránd University (HU), Broad Institute (US), Ikerbasque (ES), Natural History Museum Vienna (AT), University of Vienna (AT), Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HR), Centre for Human Genetics (GB), Natural History Museum (GB), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US), Harvard University (US), University of Bucharest (RO), University of the Basque Country (ES), Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK), University of Szeged (HU), Slovak National Museum (SK), Harvard University Press (US), Hungarian National Museum (HU), University of Oxford (GB), University of Belgrade (RS), Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK), Institute for Anthropological Research (HR), Egis Pharmaceuticals (Hungary) (HU), Hungarian Open air Museum (HU), Budapest History Museum (HU), Moravian Museum (CZ), Evolutionary Genomics (United States) (US), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE), ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities (HU), Institute of Archaeology (HU), National Library of Serbia (RS), Göcseji Museum (HU), Gradski muzej Vinkovci, University of Bergen (NO), University of York (GB), New York University (US), University of Coimbra (PT), Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
John Templeton Foundation, Vienna Science and Technology Fund, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost, Innovációs és Technológiai Minisztérium, National Institutes of Health, Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap
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