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Ancient DNA from the green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
Data from these latter periods traces the sociocultural trajectories of Neolithic herding societies in Central Sahara, from early livestock introduction to the development of a full pastoral economy characterized by transhumance and the use of secondary product 22, 23(Supplementary Note 1). Using smartpca 77 v.16000 from EIGENSOFT package v.8.0 with lsqmode enabled, PCAs were conducted on present-day individuals from Africa, Middle East and Southern Europe, genotyped on the Human Origins SNP panel 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, alongside pertinent ancient groups from these regions 2, 8, 9, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44. Nada Salem, Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Arev Pelin Sümer, Alexander Hübner, Benjamin Peter, Raffaela A. Bianco, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Kay Prüfer, Harald Ringbauer & Johannes Krause
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