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In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Holocene West Anatolia using 30 new paleogenomes. We show that Neolithization in West Anatolia was a multifaceted process, characterized by the assimilation of Neolithic practices by local foragers, the influx of eastern populations, and their admixture, with their descendants subsequently establishing Neolithic Southeast Europe. We then coanalyzed genetic and cultural similarities across early Holocene Anatolian and Aegean Neolithic villages using 58 material culture elements. Cultural distances among villages correlate with their spatial distances but not with their genetic distances after controlling for geography. This suggests that cultural change was often decoupled from genetically visible mobility.", "doi": "10.1126/science.adr3326", "pmid": "40570102", "labels": {"National Genomics Infrastructure": "Service", "NGI Stockholm (Genomics Production)": "Service", "NGI Short read": "Service"}, "xrefs": [], "notes": [], "created": "2025-11-24T10:40:50.203Z", "modified": "2025-11-24T10:40:52.334Z"}, {"entity": "publication", "iuid": "15b298c3dbdc466f99868b9b5e5aed52", "links": {"self": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/publication/15b298c3dbdc466f99868b9b5e5aed52.json"}, "display": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/publication/15b298c3dbdc466f99868b9b5e5aed52"}}, "title": "A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition.", "authors": [{"family": "Alt\u0131n\u0131\u015f\u0131k", "given": "N Ezgi", "initials": "NE", "orcid": "0000-0003-0653-4292", "researcher": {"href": 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in Southwest Asia through marked innovations in symbolism, technology, and diet. We present 13 ancient genomes (c. 8500 to 7500 cal BCE) from Pre-Pottery Neolithic \u00c7ay\u00f6n\u00fc in the Tigris basin together with bioarchaeological and material culture data. Our findings reveal that \u00c7ay\u00f6n\u00fc was a genetically diverse population, carrying mixed ancestry from western and eastern Fertile Crescent, and that the community received immigrants. Our results further suggest that the community was organized along biological family lines. We document bodily interventions such as head shaping and cauterization among the individuals examined, reflecting \u00c7ay\u00f6n\u00fc's cultural ingenuity. Last, we identify Upper Mesopotamia as the likely source of eastern gene flow into Neolithic Anatolia, in line with material culture evidence. We hypothesize that Upper Mesopotamia's cultural dynamism during the Neolithic Transition was the product not only of its fertile lands but also of its interregional demographic connections.", "doi": "10.1126/sciadv.abo3609", "pmid": "36332018", "labels": {"National Genomics Infrastructure": "Service", "NGI Stockholm (Genomics Production)": "Service", "NGI Short read": "Service"}, "xrefs": [{"db": "pmc", "key": "PMC9635823"}], "notes": [], "created": "2022-12-19T10:42:53.985Z", "modified": "2023-10-16T15:30:26.817Z"}]}