@article{item_3257221, title = {{Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia}}, author = {Feldman, Michal and Fern\'andez-Dom\'\inguez, Eva and Reynolds, Luke and Baird, Douglas and Pearson, Jessica and Hershkovitz, Israel and May, Hila and Goring-Morris, Nigel and Benz, Marion and Gresky, Julia and Bianco, Raffaela A. and Fairbairn, Andrew and Mustafao\u{g}lu, G\"okhan and Stockhammer, Philipp W. and Posth, Cosimo and Haak, Wolfgang and Jeong, Choongwon and Krause, Johannes}, language = {eng}, issn = {2041-1723}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, address = {London}, year = {2019}, abstract = {{Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. We find high genetic continuity (\textasciitilde80\textendash90\textpercent) between the hunter-gatherers and early farmers of Anatolia and detect two distinct incoming ancestries: an early Iranian/Caucasus related one and a later one linked to the ancient Levant. Finally, we observe a genetic link between southern Europe and the Near East predating 15,000 years ago. Our results suggest a limited role of human migration in the emergence of agriculture in central Anatolia.}}, journal = {{Nature Communications}}, volume = {10}, eid = {1218}, }