%0 Journal Article
%A Shinde, Vasant
%A Narasimhan, Vagheesh M.
%A Rohland, Nadin
%A Mallick, Swapan
%A Mah, Matthew
%A Lipson, Mark
%A Nakatsuka, Nathan
%A Adamski, Nicole
%A Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen
%A Ferry, Matthew
%A Lawson, Ann Marie
%A Michel, Megan
%A Oppenheimer, Jonas
%A Stewardson, Kristin
%A Jadhav, Nilesh
%A Kim, Yong Jun
%A Chatterjee, Malavika
%A Munshi, Avradeep
%A Panyam, Amrithavalli
%A Waghmare, Pranjali
%A Yadav, Yogesh
%A Patel, Himani
%A Kaushik, Amit
%A Thangaraj, Kumarasamy
%A Meyer, Matthias
%A Patterson, Nick
%A Rai, Niraj
%A Reich, David
%+ Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T An ancient Harappan genome lacks ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or Iranian farmers : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-F535-C
%R 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.048
%D 2019
%8 17.10.2019
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Summary<br>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 individuals 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.
%K population genetics, archaeology, anthropology, South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization, Harappan Civilization, ancient DNA
%J Cell
%V 179
%N 3
%& 729
%P 729 - 735.e10
%@ 0092-8674