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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2023
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-023-01987-0
Abstract: Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of in iduals associated with the post-LGM Magdalenian technocomplex has been interpreted as being derived from groups associated with the pre-LGM Aurignacian. However, both these ancestries differ from that of central European in iduals associated with the chronologically intermediate Gravettian. Thus, the genomic transition from pre- to post-LGM remains unclear also in western Europe, where we lack genomic data associated with the intermediate Solutrean, which spans the height of the LGM. Here we present genome-wide data from sites in Andalusia in southern Spain, including from a Solutrean-associated in idual from Cueva del Malalmuerzo, directly dated to ~23,000 cal yr bp . The Malalmuerzo in idual carried genetic ancestry that directly connects earlier Aurignacian-associated in iduals with post-LGM Magdalenian-associated ancestry in western Europe. This scenario differs from Italy, where in iduals associated with the transition from pre- and post-LGM carry different genetic ancestries. This suggests different dynamics in the proposed southern refugia of Ice Age Europe and posits Iberia as a potential refugium for western European pre-LGM ancestry. More, in iduals from Cueva Ardales, which were thought to be of Palaeolithic origin, date younger than expected and, together with in iduals from the Andalusian sites Caserones and Aguilillas, fall within the genetic variation of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in iduals from southern Iberia.
Location: Spain
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