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Description: Kennewick Man, referred to as the Ancient One by Native Americans, is a male human skeleton discovered in Washington state (USA) in 1996 and initially radiocarbon dated to 8,340-9,200 calibrated years before present (BP). His population affinities have been the subject of scientific debate and legal controversy. Based on an initial study of cranial morphology it was asserted that Kennewick Man was neither Native American nor closely related to the claimant Plateau tribes of the Pacific Northwest, who claimed ancestral relationship and requested repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The morphological analysis was important to judicial decisions that Kennewick Man was not Native American and that therefore NAGPRA did not apply. Instead of repatriation, additional studies of the remains were permitted. Subsequent craniometric analysis affirmed Kennewick Man to be more closely related to circumpacific groups such as the Ainu and Polynesians than he is to modern Native Americans. In order to resolve Kennewick Man's ancestry and affiliations, we have sequenced his genome to approximately 1x coverage and compared it to worldwide genomic data including for the Ainu and Polynesians. We find that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other population worldwide. Among the Native American groups for whom genome-wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville), one of the five tribes claiming Kennewick Man. We revisit the cranial analyses and find that, as opposed to genome-wide comparisons, it is not possible on that basis to affiliate Kennewick Man to specific contemporary groups. We therefore conclude based on genetic comparisons that Kennewick Man shows continuity with Native North Americans over at least the last eight millennia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rasmussen, Morten -- Sikora, Martin -- Albrechtsen, Anders -- Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand -- Moreno-Mayar, J Victor -- Poznik, G David -- Zollikofer, Christoph P E -- Ponce de Leon, Marcia S -- Allentoft, Morten E -- Moltke, Ida -- Jonsson, Hakon -- Valdiosera, Cristina -- Malhi, Ripan S -- Orlando, Ludovic -- Bustamante, Carlos D -- Stafford, Thomas W Jr -- Meltzer, David J -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Willerslev, Eske -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jul 23;523(7561):455-8. doi: 10.1038/nature14625.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. ; Program in Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia. ; Department of Anthropology and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 209F Davenport Hall, 607 Matthews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. ; 1] Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA [2] Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] AMS, 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics &Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. ; Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 4134 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26087396" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000-1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and Asia. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesized spread of Indo-European languages during the Early Bronze Age. We also demonstrate that light skin pigmentation in Europeans was already present at high frequency in the Bronze Age, but not lactose tolerance, indicating a more recent onset of positive selection on lactose tolerance than previously thought.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Allentoft, Morten E -- Sikora, Martin -- Sjogren, Karl-Goran -- Rasmussen, Simon -- Rasmussen, Morten -- Stenderup, Jesper -- Damgaard, Peter B -- Schroeder, Hannes -- Ahlstrom, Torbjorn -- Vinner, Lasse -- Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo -- Margaryan, Ashot -- Higham, Tom -- Chivall, David -- Lynnerup, Niels -- Harvig, Lise -- Baron, Justyna -- Della Casa, Philippe -- Dabrowski, Pawel -- Duffy, Paul R -- Ebel, Alexander V -- Epimakhov, Andrey -- Frei, Karin -- Furmanek, Miroslaw -- Gralak, Tomasz -- Gromov, Andrey -- Gronkiewicz, Stanislaw -- Grupe, Gisela -- Hajdu, Tamas -- Jarysz, Radoslaw -- Khartanovich, Valeri -- Khokhlov, Alexandr -- Kiss, Viktoria -- Kolar, Jan -- Kriiska, Aivar -- Lasak, Irena -- Longhi, Cristina -- McGlynn, George -- Merkevicius, Algimantas -- Merkyte, Inga -- Metspalu, Mait -- Mkrtchyan, Ruzan -- Moiseyev, Vyacheslav -- Paja, Laszlo -- Palfi, Gyorgy -- Pokutta, Dalia -- Pospieszny, Lukasz -- Price, T Douglas -- Saag, Lehti -- Sablin, Mikhail -- Shishlina, Natalia -- Smrcka, Vaclav -- Soenov, Vasilii I -- Szeverenyi, Vajk -- Toth, Gusztav -- Trifanova, Synaru V -- Varul, Liivi -- Vicze, Magdolna -- Yepiskoposyan, Levon -- Zhitenev, Vladislav -- Orlando, Ludovic -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- Brunak, Soren -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Kristiansen, Kristian -- Willerslev, Eske -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jun 11;522(7555):167-72. doi: 10.1038/nature14507.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. ; Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, 2300 Leiden, The Netherlands. ; Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. ; Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. ; Unit of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, 50-139 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Archaeological Institute, University of Zurich, CH-8006, Zurich, Switzerland. ; Department of Anatomy, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto ONM5S 2S2, Canada. ; Department of Archeology and General History, Gorno-Altaisk State University, 649000 Gorno-Altaisk, Russia. ; Institute of History and Archaeology RAS (South Ural Department), South Ural State University, 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia. ; Environmental Research and Material Science and Centre for Textile Research, The National Museum of Denmark, 1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia. ; Department of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-449 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Biocentre of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munchen, 82152 Munich, Germany. ; 1] Department of Biological Anthropology, Institute of Biology, Eotvos Lorand University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary [2] Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary. ; The Archaeological Museum of Wroclaw, 50-077 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Samara State Academy of Social Science and Humanities, 443099 Samara, Russia. ; Institute of Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, H-1250 Budapest, Hungary. ; 1] Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic [2] Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic. ; Department of Archaeology, University of Tartu, 51003 Tartu, Estonia. ; Archaeological Superintendence of Lombardy, 20123 Milano, Italy. ; Department of Archaeology, University of Vilnius, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania. ; The SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Estonian Biocentre and University of Tartu, 51010 Tartu, Estonia. ; Department of History, Yerevan State University, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia. ; 1] Hungarian National Museum, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary [2] Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary. ; Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary. ; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-612 Poznan, Poland. ; Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. ; Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia. ; Department of Archaeology, State Historical Museum, 109012 Moscow, Russia. ; Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 121 08 Prague, Czech Republic. ; Research Center for the History and Culture of the Turkic Peoples, Gorno-Altaisk State University, 649000 Gorno-Altaisk, Russia. ; Department of Pre- and Early History, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos Lorand University, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary. ; Matrica Museum, 2440 Szazhalombatta, Hungary. ; Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, 0014 Yerevan, Armenia. ; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. ; 1] Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark [2] Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26062507" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉