%0 Report %A Loosdrecht, Marieke Sophia van de %A Mannino, Marcello A. %A Talamo, Sahra %A Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa %A Posth, Cosimo %A Aron, Franziska %A Brandt, Guido %A Burri, Marta %A Freund, Cäcilia %A Radzeviciute, Rita %A Stahl, Raphaela %A Wissgott, Antje %A Klausnitzer, Lysann %A Nagel, Sarah %A Meyer, Matthias %A Tagliacozzo, Antonio %A Piperno, Marcello %A Tusa, Sebastiano %A Collina, Carmine %A Schimmenti, Vittoria %A Salvo, Rosaria Di %A Prüfer, Kay %A Hublin, Jean-Jacques %A Schiffels, Stephan %A Jeong, Choongwon %A Haak, Wolfgang %A Krause, Johannes %+ Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society MHAAM, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society %T Genomic and dietary transitions during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Sicily : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-10F0-7 %R 10.1101/2020.03.11.986158 %D 2020 %8 12.03.2020 %X Southern Italy is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean due to its central position. We present a genomic transect for 19 prehistoric Sicilians that covers the Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic period. We find that the Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (HGs) are a highly drifted sister lineage to Early Holocene western European HGs, whereas a quarter of the Late Mesolithic HGs ancestry is related to HGs from eastern Europe and the Near East. This indicates substantial gene flow from (south-)eastern Europe between the Early and Late Mesolithic. The Early Neolithic farmers are genetically most similar to those from the Balkan and Greece, and carry only a maximum of ~7% ancestry from Sicilian Mesolithic HGs. Ancestry changes match changes in dietary profile and material culture, except for two individuals who may provide tentative initial evidence that HGs adopted elements of farming in Sicily. %K Ancient DNA, isotopes, Europe, Sicily, Ice Age, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Castelnovian, farming %J bioRxiv %Z sequence number: 986158 %U https://www.biorxiv.org/