Authors: Rosana Pla Orquín; Michele Guirguis; Salvatore Rubino; Carlo Sidore; Clizia Murgia; Kushal K. Dey; Hussein Al-Asadi; Clio Der Sarkissian; Elisa Pompianu; Chi-Chun Liu; Megan Michel; Vittorio Mazzarello; Wolfgang Haak; Maria Giuseppina Gradoli; Cosimo Posth; Rita Radzevičiūtė; David Reich; Harald Ringbauer; Jessica Beckett; Robin Skeates; Johannes Krause; Rita Serra; Charleston W. K. Chiang; David Schlessinger; Luca Lai; John Novembre; Joseph Marcus; Francesco Cucca; Pasquale Bandiera; Alessandra La Fragola; Anja Furtwängler; Noreen Tuross; Peter van Dommelen; Patrizia Marongiu; Tyler A. Joseph; Anna Olivieri; Raffaella Bianucci; Daniela Rovina

Venue: Nature Communications

Type: Publication

Abstract: AbstractThe island of Sardinia has been of particular interest to geneticists for decades. The current model for Sardinia’s genetic history describes the island as harboring a founder population that was established largely from the Neolithic peoples of southern Europe and remained isolated from later Bronze Age expansions on the mainland. To evaluate this model, we generate genome-wide ancient DNA data for 70 individuals from 21 Sardinian archaeological sites spanning the Middle Neolithic through the Medieval period. The earliest individuals... (read more)

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14523-6