9,000 years of genetic continuity in southernmost Africa demonstrated at Oakhurst rockshelter.


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Nature ecology & evolution
ISSN: 2397-334X
Titre abrégé: Nat Ecol Evol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101698577

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Date de publication:
19 Sep 2024
Historique:
received: 31 01 2024
accepted: 02 08 2024
medline: 20 9 2024
pubmed: 20 9 2024
entrez: 19 9 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Southern Africa has one of the longest records of fossil hominins and harbours the largest human genetic diversity in the world. Yet, despite its relevance for human origins and spread around the globe, the formation and processes of its gene pool in the past are still largely unknown. Here, we present a time transect of genome-wide sequences from nine individuals recovered from a single site in South Africa, Oakhurst Rockshelter. Spanning the whole Holocene, the ancient DNA of these individuals allows us to reconstruct the demographic trajectories of the indigenous San population and their ancestors during the last 10,000 years. We show that, in contrast to most regions around the world, the population history of southernmost Africa was not characterized by several waves of migration, replacement and admixture but by long-lasting genetic continuity from the early Holocene to the end of the Later Stone Age. Although the advent of pastoralism and farming substantially transformed the gene pool in most parts of southern Africa after 1,300 BP, we demonstrate using allele-frequency and identity-by-descent segment-based methods that the ‡Khomani San and Karretjiemense from South Africa still show direct signs of relatedness to the Oakhurst hunter-gatherers, a pattern obscured by recent, extensive non-Southern African admixture. Yet, some southern San in South Africa still preserve this ancient, Pleistocene-derived genetic signature, extending the period of genetic continuity until today.

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pubmed: 39300260
doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02532-3
pii: 10.1038/s41559-024-02532-3
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eng

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Auteurs

Joscha Gretzinger (J)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Archaeogenetics, Leipzig, Germany.

Victoria E Gibbon (VE)

Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. victoria.gibbon@uct.ac.za.

Sandra E Penske (SE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Archaeogenetics, Leipzig, Germany.

Judith C Sealy (JC)

Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Adam B Rohrlach (AB)

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

Domingo C Salazar-García (DC)

Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Departament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga, Universitat de València, València, Spain.

Johannes Krause (J)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Archaeogenetics, Leipzig, Germany.

Stephan Schiffels (S)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Archaeogenetics, Leipzig, Germany. stephan_schiffels@eva.mpg.de.

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