Ancient genomes reveal insights into ritual life at Chichén Itzá.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
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Date de publication:
12 Jun 2024
Historique:
received: 30 03 2023
accepted: 02 05 2024
medline: 13 6 2024
pubmed: 13 6 2024
entrez: 12 6 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The ancient city of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico, was one of the largest and most influential Maya settlements during the Late and Terminal Classic periods (AD 600-1000) and it remains one of the most intensively studied archaeological sites in Mesoamerica

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doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07509-7
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07509-7
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Auteurs

Rodrigo Barquera (R)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany. rodrigo_barquera@eva.mpg.de.
Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City, Mexico. rodrigo_barquera@eva.mpg.de.

Oana Del Castillo-Chávez (O)

Centro INAH Yucatán, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. oana_delcastillo@inah.gob.mx.

Kathrin Nägele (K)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany.

Patxi Pérez-Ramallo (P)

isoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
University of the Basque Country (EHU), San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain.
Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Department of Archaeology and Cultural History, University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

Diana Iraíz Hernández-Zaragoza (DI)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany.
Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City, Mexico.

András Szolek (A)

Applied Bioinformatics, Dept. for Computer Science, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Department of Immunology, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Adam Benjamin Rohrlach (AB)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany.
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

Pablo Librado (P)

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain.

Ainash Childebayeva (A)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany.
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Raffaela Angelina Bianco (RA)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany.

Bridget S Penman (BS)

The Zeeman Institute and the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Victor Acuña-Alonzo (V)

Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City, Mexico.

Mary Lucas (M)

isoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.

Julio César Lara-Riegos (JC)

Chemistry Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), Mérida, Mexico.

María Ermila Moo-Mezeta (ME)

Nursing Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), Mérida, Mexico.

Julio César Torres-Romero (JC)

Chemistry Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), Mérida, Mexico.

Patrick Roberts (P)

isoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.

Oliver Kohlbacher (O)

Applied Bioinformatics, Dept. for Computer Science, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Quantitative Biology Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Translational Bioinformatics, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Christina Warinner (C)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany.
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Johannes Krause (J)

Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany. krause@eva.mpg.de.

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