Mitochondrial DNA and Y‐chromosome structure at the mediterranean and atlantic façades of the iberian peninsula

Abstract

The major haplotypic affinities found for all the Iberian Peninsula regions were always with North Africa and the Atlantic Islands. These results draw an Atlantic network that clearly resembles those of the Megalithic Copper and Bronze cultures at this part of Europe.

From Arabia to Iberia: A Y chromosome perspective

“…The most significant groups include the Tartessians (Koch, 2013), of unknown origins that appeared during the 9th century before the common era (BCE) (Marcos Garcia, 1987;Almagro-Gorbea, 2004), extreme cultural diversity is in fact reflected in the gene pools of its extant populations. Gene flow from North Africa to Iberia has been in demonstrated in a number of previous publications (Rando et al, 1998;Pereira et al, 2005;Plaza et al, 2013;Santos et al, 2014) and higher frequency of some Y-chromosome North African lineages have been observed in northern Iberia .…”

Macrobotanical remains and shell-midden formation processes, are they related? The case of Poças de São Bento (Portugal)

“…Fruits from different Mediterranean trees would have been gathered between spring and autumn but could have been stored much longer (Riddervold and Ropeid 1988). The problem with fruits, particularly fleshy ones, is they tend to be dispersed by endozoochory (ingestion by animals).…”

“…Dean, Valente and Carvalho 2012;Jackes, Lubell and Meiklejohn 1997;Jorge 2000). Indeed, the latest genetical evidence seems to argue in favour of an integration of a small group of people in the Neolithic with previously existing populations of a Palaeolithic/Mesolithic origin (Santos et al 2014against Chandler, Sykes and Zilhão 2005and Lalueza Fox 1996. Single explanatory and linear models are being criticised, and regional mosaics of distinct processes are being identified (Cruz Berrocal 2012).…”

Sex‐specific genetic diversity is shaped by cultural factors in Inner Asian human populations

“…Additionally, for some analyses based on the Y-STR dataset, we included six South Siberian populations from the literature (Dulik, Osipova, & Schurr, 2011;Dulik et al, 2012): TubD (Tubalar), ChkD (Chelkan), KumD (Kumandin), AkiD (Altai-Kizhi), SekD, and SwkD (Kazakh). We also collected haplogroup data from the literature from two geographically distinct Eurasian areas: South Europe (Santos et al, 2014) and East Asia (Wang et al, 2014). We chose three populations from each area that included more than 15 individuals per population: Val (Valencia), Gal (Galicia), and Alm (Almeria) in Spain; Yj (Hekou Town), Db (Danba), and Bm (Bamei Town) in County of Sichuan, China.…”