% pubman genre = article @article{item_3174024, title = {{An ancient Harappan genome lacks ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or Iranian farmers}}, author = {Shinde, Vasant and Narasimhan, Vagheesh M. and Rohland, Nadin and Mallick, Swapan and Mah, Matthew and Lipson, Mark and Nakatsuka, Nathan and Adamski, Nicole and Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen and Ferry, Matthew and Lawson, Ann Marie and Michel, Megan and Oppenheimer, Jonas and Stewardson, Kristin and Jadhav, Nilesh and Kim, Yong Jun and Chatterjee, Malavika and Munshi, Avradeep and Panyam, Amrithavalli and Waghmare, Pranjali and Yadav, Yogesh and Patel, Himani and Kaushik, Amit and Thangaraj, Kumarasamy and Meyer, Matthias and Patterson, Nick and Rai, Niraj and Reich, David}, language = {eng}, issn = {0092-8674}, doi = {10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.048}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-10-17}, abstract = {{Summary{\textless}br{\textgreater}We report an ancient genome from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The individual we sequenced fits as a mixture of people related to ancient Iranians (the largest component) and Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers, a unique profile that matches ancient DNA from 11 genetic outliers from sites in Iran and Turkmenistan in cultural communication with the IVC. These individualsĀ had little if any Steppe pastoralist-derived ancestry, showing that it was not ubiquitous in northwest South Asia during the IVC as it is today. The Iranian-related ancestry in the IVC derives from a lineage leading to early Iranian farmers, herders, and hunter-gatherers before their ancestors separated, contradicting the hypothesis that the shared ancestry between early Iranians and South Asians reflects a large-scale spread of western Iranian farmers east. Instead, sampled ancient genomes from the Iranian plateau and IVC descend from different groups of hunter-gatherers who began farming without being connected by substantial movement of people.}}, journal = {{Cell}}, volume = {179}, number = {3}, pages = {729--735.e10}, }