The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana.
The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana.
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10.1038/nature13025
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发表时间:
2014-02-13
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64.8
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Willerslev E
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Rasmussen M;Anzick SL;Waters MR;Skoglund P;DeGiorgio M;Stafford TW Jr;Rasmussen S;Moltke I;Albrechtsen A;Doyle SM;Poznik GD;Gudmundsdottir V;Yadav R;Malaspinas AS;White SS 5th;Allentoft ME;Cornejo OE;Tambets K;Eriksson A;Heintzman PD;Karmin M;Korneliussen TS;Meltzer DJ;Pierre TL;Stenderup J;Saag L;Warmuth VM;Lopes MC;Malhi RS;Brunak S;Sicheritz-Ponten T;Barnes I;Collins M;Orlando L;Balloux F;Manica A;Gupta R;Metspalu M;Bustamante CD;Jakobsson M;Nielsen R;Willerslev E
Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 14C years BP (13,000 to 12,600 calendar years BP). Nearly fifty years of archaeological research point to the Clovis complex as having developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology. However, both the origins and genetic legacy of the people who manufactured Clovis tools remain debated. It is argued that these people ultimately derived from Asia and were directly related to contemporary Native Americans. An alternative, Solutrean, hypothesis posits that the Clovis predecessors immigrated from Southwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Here, we report the genome sequence of a male infant (Anzick-1) recovered from the Anzick burial site in western Montana. The human bones date to 10,705±35 14C years BP (CAMS-80538; c. 12,707–12,556 calendar years BP) and were directly associated with Clovis tools. We sequenced the genome to an average depth of 14.4× and show that the gene flow from the Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal′ta individual into Native American ancestors is also shared by the Anzick-1 individual and thus happened prior to 12,600 years BP. We also show that the Anzick-1 individual is more closely related to all indigenous American populations than to any other group. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that Anzick-1 belonged to a population directly ancestral to many contemporary Native Americans. Finally, we find evidence of a deep divergence in Native American populations that pre-dates the Anzick-1 individual.