ena-STUDY-UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA-10-06-2020-11:05:01:725-258
Sequencing of Verteba cave genomes
The transition to agriculture occurred relatively late in Eastern Europe, leadingresearchers to debate whether it was a gradual, interactive process or acolonisation event. In the forest and forest-steppe regions of Ukraine, farmingappeared during the fifth millennium BCE, associated with the people of theCucuteni-Trypillian archaeological complex (4800-3000 BCE). AcrossEurope, the Neolithization process was highly variable across space and overtime. Here, we investigate the population dynamics of early agriculturalistsfrom the western forest-steppe region based on the analyses of 23 ancientgenomes from the site of Verteba Cave (3789-1952 BCE). We show that theVerteba Cave individuals replaced local Ukrainian Neolithic hunter-gatherers.Additionally, we present evidence for successive waves of steppe ancestryrelated migrations that mixed with the Cucuteni-Trypillian basis. Lastly, wepresent genomic evidence that corroborates archaeological data that VertebaCave was used by diverse cultures over the course of at least 2000 years.
The transition to agriculture occurred relatively late in Eastern Europe, leadingresearchers to debate whether it was a gradual, interactive process or acolonisation event. In the forest and forest-steppe regions of Ukraine, farmingappeared during the fifth millennium BCE, associated with the people of theCucuteni-Trypillian archaeological complex (4800-3000 BCE). AcrossEurope, the Neolithization process was highly variable across space and overtime. Here, we investigate the population dynamics of early agriculturalistsfrom the western forest-steppe region based on the analyses of 23 ancientgenomes from the site of Verteba Cave (3789-1952 BCE). We show that theVerteba Cave individuals replaced local Ukrainian Neolithic hunter-gatherers.Additionally, we present evidence for successive waves of steppe ancestryrelated migrations that mixed with the Cucuteni-Trypillian basis. Lastly, wepresent genomic evidence that corroborates archaeological data that VertebaCave was used by diverse cultures over the course of at least 2000 years.