HEAS Members Ron Pinhasi and Olivia Cheronet Publish Nature Paper on Unraveling the eastern Maghreb’s Ancient DNA
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HEAS members Ron Pinhasi and Olivia Cheronet et al. published a paper in Nature on High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb.
The study published in Nature and co-led by Ron Pinhasi, University of Vienna, David Reich and Mark Lipson, Harvard Medical School, Alfredo Coppa, Sapienza University of Rome, and Giulio Lucarini, National Research Council of Italy, analyzed genome-wide data for nine individuals from the Later Stone Age through the Neolithic period from the eastern Maghreb (Algeria and Tunisia). Their results challenge the assumption that the region was merely a passive recipient of Neolithic influences – instead, they identified a striking pattern of continuity.
High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb