Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes
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Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes. / Yaka, Reyhan; Mapelli, Igor; Kaptan, Damla; Doğu, Ayça; Chyleński, Maciej; Erdal, Ömür Dilek; Koptekin, Dilek; Vural, Kıvılcım Başak; Bayliss, Alex; Mazzucato, Camilla; Fer, Evrim; Çokoğlu, Sevim Seda; Lagerholm, Vendela Kempe; Krzewińska, Maja; Karamurat, Cansu; Gemici, Hasan Can; Sevkar, Arda; Dağtaş, Nihan Dilşad; Kılınç, Gülşah Merve; Adams, Donovan; Munters, Arielle R.; Sağlıcan, Ekin; Milella, Marco; Schotsmans, Eline M.J.; Yurtman, Erinç; Çetin, Mehmet; Yorulmaz, Sevgi; Altınışık, N. Ezgi; Ghalichi, Ayshin; Juras, Anna; Bilgin, C. Can; Günther, Torsten; Storå, Jan; Jakobsson, Mattias; de Kleijn, Maurice; Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan; Fairbairn, Andrew; Pearson, Jessica; Togan, İnci; Kayacan, Nurcan; Marciniak, Arkadiusz; Larsen, Clark Spencer; Hodder, Ian; Atakuman, Çiğdem; Pilloud, Marin; Sürer, Elif; Gerritsen, Fokke; Özbal, Rana; Baird, Douglas; Erdal, Yılmaz Selim; Duru, Güneş; Özbaşaran, Mihriban; Haddow, Scott D.; Knüsel, Christopher J.; Götherström, Anders; Özer, Füsun; Somel, Mehmet.
In: Current Biology, Vol. 31, No. 11, 07.06.2021, p. 2455-2468.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes
AU - Yaka, Reyhan
AU - Mapelli, Igor
AU - Kaptan, Damla
AU - Doğu, Ayça
AU - Chyleński, Maciej
AU - Erdal, Ömür Dilek
AU - Koptekin, Dilek
AU - Vural, Kıvılcım Başak
AU - Bayliss, Alex
AU - Mazzucato, Camilla
AU - Fer, Evrim
AU - Çokoğlu, Sevim Seda
AU - Lagerholm, Vendela Kempe
AU - Krzewińska, Maja
AU - Karamurat, Cansu
AU - Gemici, Hasan Can
AU - Sevkar, Arda
AU - Dağtaş, Nihan Dilşad
AU - Kılınç, Gülşah Merve
AU - Adams, Donovan
AU - Munters, Arielle R.
AU - Sağlıcan, Ekin
AU - Milella, Marco
AU - Schotsmans, Eline M.J.
AU - Yurtman, Erinç
AU - Çetin, Mehmet
AU - Yorulmaz, Sevgi
AU - Altınışık, N. Ezgi
AU - Ghalichi, Ayshin
AU - Juras, Anna
AU - Bilgin, C. Can
AU - Günther, Torsten
AU - Storå, Jan
AU - Jakobsson, Mattias
AU - de Kleijn, Maurice
AU - Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan
AU - Fairbairn, Andrew
AU - Pearson, Jessica
AU - Togan, İnci
AU - Kayacan, Nurcan
AU - Marciniak, Arkadiusz
AU - Larsen, Clark Spencer
AU - Hodder, Ian
AU - Atakuman, Çiğdem
AU - Pilloud, Marin
AU - Sürer, Elif
AU - Gerritsen, Fokke
AU - Özbal, Rana
AU - Baird, Douglas
AU - Erdal, Yılmaz Selim
AU - Duru, Güneş
AU - Özbaşaran, Mihriban
AU - Haddow, Scott D.
AU - Knüsel, Christopher J.
AU - Götherström, Anders
AU - Özer, Füsun
AU - Somel, Mehmet
N1 - Funding Information: We thank all colleagues at the METU CompEvo and Hacettepe Human_G groups, and Özlen Konu for helpful discussion, the Konya Museum and the Ministry of Culture of Turkey for permissions, and three anonymous reviewers for suggestions. Funding: The work was supported by ERC (Consolidator Grant no. 772390 to M.S.), EMBO (Short-Term Fellowship grant no. STF 7909 to R.Y.), TÜBITAK of Turkey (grant no. 117Z229 to M.S.), AHRC/NSF ( AH/M008908/1 to A.B. and I.H.), NCN of Poland (grants no. 2012/06/M/HS3/00286 to A.M., 2017/24/T/HS3/00511 , and 2014/15/N/HS3/01272 to M.Ch.), National Science Foundation of the USA (Senior Biological Anthropology, NSF BCS-1827338 to M.P.), the French State via the ‘Investments for the Future’ framework program, Initiative d’Excellence de l’Université de Bordeaux ( IdEx ) (Award No. ANR-10-IDEX-03-02 to C.J.K). Funding Information: We thank all colleagues at the METU CompEvo and Hacettepe Human_G groups, and ?zlen Konu for helpful discussion, the Konya Museum and the Ministry of Culture of Turkey for permissions, and three anonymous reviewers for suggestions. Funding: The work was supported by ERC (Consolidator Grant no. 772390 to M.S.), EMBO (Short-Term Fellowship grant no. STF 7909 to R.Y.), T?BITAK of Turkey (grant no. 117Z229 to M.S.), AHRC/NSF (AH/M008908/1 to A.B. and I.H.), NCN of Poland (grants no. 2012/06/M/HS3/00286 to A.M. 2017/24/T/HS3/00511, and 2014/15/N/HS3/01272 to M.Ch.), National Science Foundation of the USA (Senior Biological Anthropology, NSF BCS-1827338 to M.P.), the French State via the ?Investments for the Future? framework program, Initiative d'Excellence de l'Universit? de Bordeaux (IdEx) (Award No. ANR-10-IDEX-03-02 to C.J.K). (a) R.Y. I.M. M.Ch. ?.T. ?.A. M.P. E.S?. F.G. R.?. D.B. Y.S.E. G.D. M.?. S.D.H. C.J.K. A.G?. F.?. and M.S. conceived and designed the study and experiments, with contributions by J.S. A.Ma. C.S.L. and I.H.; (b) ?.D.E. N.K. A.Ma. C.S.L. I.H. Y.S.E. G.D. M.?. S.D.H. and C.J.K. provided the osteoarchaeological material; (c) M.Ch. ?.D.E. M.M. E.M.J.Sc. Y.S.E. S.D.H. and C.J.K. prepared the osteoarchaeological material; (d) C.M. A.B. C.K. H.C.G. D.A. ?.A. M.P. F.G. R.?. D.B. Y.S.E. G.D. M.?. S.D.H. and C.J.K. compiled and analyzed archaeological data, with contributions by M.deK. G.M. A.F. J.P. and N.K.; (e) R.Y. A.D. M.Ch. D.Ka. and N.D.D. performed molecular biology laboratory experiments, with contributions and support from V.K.L. M.K. and S.Y. supervised by A.G. F.?. and M.S.; (f) R.Y. I.M. K.B.V. D.Ko. E.F. S.S.?. G.M.K. A.D. A.S. and M.S. analyzed genetic data and performed simulations, with contributions and support from M.Ch. N.D.D. M.?e. E.Y. A.R.Mu. E.K. A.Gh. T.G. and M.J. supervised by N.E.A. E.S?. A.G. F.?. and M.S.; (g) ?.A. M.P. E.S?. F.G. R.?. D.B. Y.S.E. G.D. M.?. S.D.H. C.J.K. A.G?. F.?. and M.S. supervised the study, with contributions by C.C.B. A.J. and A.Ma.; (h) R.Y. I.M. M.M. ?.A. M.P. E.S?. F.G. R.?. D.B. Y.S.E. G.D. M.?. S.D.H. C.J.K. A.G?. F.?. and M.S. wrote the manuscript with contributions from all authors. The authors declare no competing interests. One or more of the authors of this paper self-identifies as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. The author list of this paper includes contributors from the location where the research was conducted who participated in the data collection, design, analysis, and/or interpretation of the work. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors
PY - 2021/6/7
Y1 - 2021/6/7
N2 - The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic,1 mainly because material culture studies provide limited insight into this issue. However, because Neolithic Anatolian communities often buried their dead beneath domestic buildings,2 household composition and social structure can be studied through these human remains. Here, we describe genetic relatedness among co-burials associated with domestic buildings in Neolithic Anatolia using 59 ancient genomes, including 22 new genomes from Aşıklı Höyük and Çatalhöyük. We infer pedigree relationships by simultaneously analyzing multiple types of information, including autosomal and X chromosome kinship coefficients, maternal markers, and radiocarbon dating. In two early Neolithic villages dating to the 9th and 8th millennia BCE, Aşıklı Höyük and Boncuklu, we discover that siblings and parent-offspring pairings were frequent within domestic structures, which provides the first direct indication of close genetic relationships among co-burials. In contrast, in the 7th millennium BCE sites of Çatalhöyük and Barcın, where we study subadults interred within and around houses, we find close genetic relatives to be rare. Hence, genetic relatedness may not have played a major role in the choice of burial location at these latter two sites, at least for subadults. This supports the hypothesis that in Çatalhöyük,3–5 and possibly in some other Neolithic communities, domestic structures may have served as burial location for social units incorporating biologically unrelated individuals. Our results underscore the diversity of kin structures in Neolithic communities during this important phase of sociocultural development.
AB - The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic,1 mainly because material culture studies provide limited insight into this issue. However, because Neolithic Anatolian communities often buried their dead beneath domestic buildings,2 household composition and social structure can be studied through these human remains. Here, we describe genetic relatedness among co-burials associated with domestic buildings in Neolithic Anatolia using 59 ancient genomes, including 22 new genomes from Aşıklı Höyük and Çatalhöyük. We infer pedigree relationships by simultaneously analyzing multiple types of information, including autosomal and X chromosome kinship coefficients, maternal markers, and radiocarbon dating. In two early Neolithic villages dating to the 9th and 8th millennia BCE, Aşıklı Höyük and Boncuklu, we discover that siblings and parent-offspring pairings were frequent within domestic structures, which provides the first direct indication of close genetic relationships among co-burials. In contrast, in the 7th millennium BCE sites of Çatalhöyük and Barcın, where we study subadults interred within and around houses, we find close genetic relatives to be rare. Hence, genetic relatedness may not have played a major role in the choice of burial location at these latter two sites, at least for subadults. This supports the hypothesis that in Çatalhöyük,3–5 and possibly in some other Neolithic communities, domestic structures may have served as burial location for social units incorporating biologically unrelated individuals. Our results underscore the diversity of kin structures in Neolithic communities during this important phase of sociocultural development.
KW - Anatolia
KW - household composition
KW - identity by descent
KW - intramural burial
KW - kinship
KW - Neolithic transition
KW - paleogenomics
KW - relatedness
U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.050
DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.050
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33857427
AN - SCOPUS:85104986438
VL - 31
SP - 2455
EP - 2468
JO - Current Biology
JF - Current Biology
SN - 0960-9822
IS - 11
ER -
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