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The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran
2016-06-18
Abstract excerpt
The agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39×) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh, in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, a site with early evidence for an economy based on goat herding,ca. 10,000 BP. We show that Western Iran was inhabited by a population genetically most similar to hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus, but distinct from the Neo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d3aa2867-5c1e-5e9d-a998-e76c203957ae
- DOI
- 10.1101/059568