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Lithuanian Institute of History
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About: Lithuanian Institute of History is a education organization based out in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Lithuanian & Radiocarbon dating. The organization has 82 authors who have published 149 publications receiving 805 citations.
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Max Planck Society1, University of Tübingen2, Xiamen University3, Lithuanian Institute of History4, University of Latvia5, The Heritage Foundation6, Tallinn University7, University of Tartu8, Stockholm University9, American Museum of Natural History10, Howard Hughes Medical Institute11, Harvard University12, Broad Institute13, Vilnius University14, University of Adelaide15
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report genome-wide DNA data from 38 ancient North Europeans ranging from ~9500 to 2200 years before present, and reveal that the first Scandinavian farmers derive their ancestry from Anatolia 1000 years earlier than previously demonstrated.
Abstract: While the series of events that shaped the transition between foraging societies and food producers are well described for Central and Southern Europe, genetic evidence from Northern Europe surrounding the Baltic Sea is still sparse. Here, we report genome-wide DNA data from 38 ancient North Europeans ranging from ~9500 to 2200 years before present. Our analysis provides genetic evidence that hunter-gatherers settled Scandinavia via two routes. We reveal that the first Scandinavian farmers derive their ancestry from Anatolia 1000 years earlier than previously demonstrated. The range of Mesolithic Western hunter-gatherers extended to the east of the Baltic Sea, where these populations persisted without gene-flow from Central European farmers during the Early and Middle Neolithic. The arrival of steppe pastoralists in the Late Neolithic introduced a major shift in economy and mediated the spread of a new ancestry associated with the Corded Ware Complex in Northern Europe.
162 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors are grateful to the European Research Council, under grant 249642, “Food Globalisation in Prehistory” (FOGLIP, PI: M. K. Jones); the Leverhulme Trust under grant f/09717/C, "Pioneers of Pan-Asian Contact”(PPAC, PI): M.K. Jones; the National Science Foundation, under Grant 1826727, "The origins and spread of millet cultivation" (PI: X. Liu); the Rae and Edith Bennett
118 citations
Max Planck Society1, University of Tübingen2, University of Adelaide3, Tallinn University4, Lithuanian Institute of History5, Vilnius University6, University of Wyoming7, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich8, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut9, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts10, Hungarian Academy of Sciences11, University of Tartu12
TL;DR: Six new European Y. pestis genomes spanning the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age are presented and it is proposed that the pathogen may have entered Europe from Central Eurasia following an expansion of people from the steppe, persisted within Europe until the mid-Bronze Age, and moved back toward Central Eurasian in parallel with human populations.
115 citations
University of Oxford1, Queen Mary University of London2, University of Mainz3, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut4, University of York5, Texas A&M University6, Trinity College, Dublin7, Natural History Museum8, University of Michigan9, Massachusetts Institute of Technology10, Durham University11, Centre national de la recherche scientifique12, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki13, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill14, Stockholm University15, Russian Academy of Sciences16, University of Edinburgh17, Columbia University18, University of Belgrade19, University of Groningen20, University of Burgos21, Wageningen University and Research Centre22, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences23, University of Lisbon24, University of Huddersfield25, Gazi University26, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University27, University of Naples Federico II28, Graduate University for Advanced Studies29, Hebrew University of Jerusalem30, University of Liverpool31, Queen's University Belfast32, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań33, University of Reading34, Lithuanian Institute of History35, Goethe University Frankfurt36, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources37, University of Queensland38, University of Kent39, City University of New York40, University of Liège41, Free University of Berlin42, University College London43, University of Vienna44, University of Toulouse45, Simon Fraser University46, University of Siena47, Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart48, Bournemouth University49, University of Cambridge50, La Trobe University51, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine52, University of Copenhagen53, Norwegian University of Science and Technology54, University of Basel55, National Museum of Natural History56, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich57, University of Aberdeen58, University of Montpellier59, Liverpool John Moores University60
TL;DR: This paper showed that European domestic pigs dating from 7,100 to 6,000 y BP possessed both Near Eastern and European nuclear ancestry, while later pigs possessed no more than 4% Near Eastern ancestry, indicating that gene flow from European wild boars resulted in a near complete disappearance of Near East ancestry.
Abstract: Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature disappeared and was replaced by haplotypes associated with European wild boars. This turnover could be accounted for by substantial gene flow from local European wild boars, although it is also possible that European wild boars were domesticated independently without any genetic contribution from the Near East. To test these hypotheses, we obtained mtDNA sequences from 2,099 modern and ancient pig samples and 63 nuclear ancient genomes from Near Eastern and European pigs. Our analyses revealed that European domestic pigs dating from 7,100 to 6,000 y BP possessed both Near Eastern and European nuclear ancestry, while later pigs possessed no more than 4% Near Eastern ancestry, indicating that gene flow from European wild boars resulted in a near-complete disappearance of Near East ancestry. In addition, we demonstrate that a variant at a locus encoding black coat color likely originated in the Near East and persisted in European pigs. Altogether, our results indicate that while pigs were not independently domesticated in Europe, the vast majority of human-mediated selection over the past 5,000 y focused on the genomic fraction derived from the European wild boars, and not on the fraction that was selected by early Neolithic farmers over the first 2,500 y of the domestication process.
99 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a study of pottery vessel contents and use was undertaken in order to obtain information on food processed in Subneolithic and Neolithic vessels from Nida and Sventoji (3300-2400 cal BC).
61 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gytis Piličiauskas | 11 | 29 | 291 |
| Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute | 11 | 29 | 874 |
| Mantas Daubaras | 5 | 6 | 245 |
| Tomas Ostrauskas | 4 | 5 | 47 |
| Vykintas Vaitkevičius | 4 | 17 | 62 |
| Vytenis Podėnas | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| Andrea Griffante | 3 | 12 | 22 |
| Laurynas Kurila | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| Rasa Banytė Rowell | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Vitalija Stravinskienė | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Rasa Čepaitienė | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė | 2 | 2 | 18 |
| Agnė Čivilytė | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| Vytautas Petronis | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| Darius Staliūnas | 2 | 4 | 10 |