RT journal article
T1 A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum
A1 Villalba Mouco, Vanessa
A1 van de Loosdrecht, Marieke S.
A1 Rohrlach, Adam B.
A1 Fewlass, Helen
A1 Talamo, Sahra
A1 Yu, He
A1 Aron, Franziska
A1 Lalueza Fox, Carles
A1 Cabello Ligero, Lidia
A1 Cantalejo-Duarte, Pedro
A1 Ramos Muñoz, José Francisco
A1 Posth, Cosimo
A1 Krause, Johannes
A1 Weniger, Gerd-Christian
A1 Haak, Wolfgang
A2 HistoriaGeografía y Filosofía
K1 Population-structure
K1 genomes suggest
K1 climated change
K1 ancient DNA
K1 History
K1 Settlement
K1 Dispersal
K1 Patterns
K1 complex
AB Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of individuals associated with the post-LGM Magdalenian technocomplex has been interpreted as being derived from groups associated with the pre-LGM Aurignacian. However, both these ancestries differ from that of central European individuals associated with the chronologically intermediate Gravettian. Thus, the genomic transition from pre- to post-LGM remains unclear also in western Europe, where we lack genomic data associated with the intermediate Solutrean, which spans the height of the LGM. Here we present genome-wide data from sites in Andalusia in southern Spain, including from a Solutrean-associated individual from Cueva del Malalmuerzo, directly dated to similar to 23,000 cal yr bp. The Malalmuerzo individual carried genetic ancestry that directly connects earlier Aurignacian-associated individuals with post-LGM Magdalenian-associated ancestry in western Europe. This scenario differs from Italy, where individuals associated with the transition from pre- and post-LGM carry different genetic ancestries. This suggests different dynamics in the proposed southern refugia of Ice Age Europe and posits Iberia as a potential refugium for western European pre-LGM ancestry. More, individuals from Cueva Ardales, which were thought to be of Palaeolithic origin, date younger than expected and, together with individuals from the Andalusian sites Caserones and Aguilillas, fall within the genetic variation of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age individuals from southern Iberia.
PB Springer
SN 2397-334X
YR 2023
FD 2023-03-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29620
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29620
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026