NDLI: The genome of a late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

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Author	Rasmussen, Morten Anzick, Sarah L. Waters, Michael R. Skoglund, Pontus Degiorgio, Michael Stafford, Thomas W. Rasmussen, Simon Moltke, Ida Albrechtsen, Anders Doyle, Shane M. David, Poznik G. Gudmundsdottir, Valborg Yadav, Rachita Malaspinas, Anna-sapfo White, Samuel Stockton Allentoft, Morten E. Cornejo, Omar E. Tambets, Kristiina Eriksson, Anders Heintzman, Peter D. Karmin, Monika Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand Meltzer, David J. Pierre, Tracey L. Stenderup, Jesper Saag, Lauri Warmuth, Vera Lopes, Margarida Cabrita Malhi, Ripan S. Brunak, Søren Thomas, Sicheritz-ponten Barnes, Ian Collins, Matthew Orlando, Ludovic Francois, Balloux Andrea, Manica Gupta, Ramneek Metspalu, Mait Bustamante, Carlos D. Jakobsson, Mattias Nielsen, Rasmus Willerslev, Eske
Abstract	Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 14C years BP (13,000 to 12,600 calendar years BP) 1,2 . Nearly fifty years of archaeological research point to the Clovis complex as having developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology 3 . However, both the origins and genetic legacy of the people who manufactured Clovis tools remain debated. It is argued that these people ultimately derived from Asia and were directly related to contemporary Native Americans 2 . An alternative, Solutrean, hypothesis posits that the Clovis predecessors immigrated from Southwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 4 . Here, we report the genome sequence of a male infant (Anzick-1) recovered from the Anzick burial site in western Montana. The human bones date to 10,705±35 14C years BP (CAMS-80538; c. 12,707–12,556 calendar years BP) and were directly associated with Clovis tools. We sequenced the genome to an average depth of 14.4× and show that the gene flow from the Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal′ta individual 5 into Native American ancestors is also shared by the Anzick-1 individual and thus happened prior to 12,600 years BP. We also show that the Anzick-1 individual is more closely related to all indigenous American populations than to any other group. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that Anzick-1 belonged to a population directly ancestral to many contemporary Native Americans. Finally, we find evidence of a deep divergence in Native American populations that pre-dates the Anzick-1 individual.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13025
Ending Page	229
Page Count	5
Starting Page	225
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ISSN	00280836
e-ISSN	14764687
Journal	Nature
Issue Number	7487
Volume Number	506
Language	English
Publisher Date	2014-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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