Authors: Laurent A. F. Frantz; Bea De Cupere; Richard Sabin; Holley Martlew; Liora Kolska Horwitz; Marjan Mashkour; François-Xavier Ricaut; Darko Radmanovic; Andrea Zeeb-Lanz; Benjamin S. Arbuckle; Rebecca Miller; Vincent M. Battista; Daniel Helmer; Max Price; Vesna Dimitrijević; Katerina Trantalidou; Clive Bonsall; Cristina Valdiosera; Greger Larson; Erik Meijaard; Cleia Detry; John R. Stewart; Canan Çakirlar; Simon Stoddart; Youri van den Hurk; Alexandros Triantafyllidis; Caroline Malone; Thomas H. McGovern; Dusan Boric; Hitomi Hongo; Jörg Orschiedt; Arkadiusz Marciniak; Alexander Yanevich; Shiva Sheikhi; Antonio Tagliacozzo; Gennady F. Baryshnikov; Norbert Benecke; Linus Girdland-Flink; Panoraia Alexandri; Peter Rowley-Conwy; Martien A. M. Groenen; Mihai Gligor; Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute; Hendrik-Jan Megens; Ninna Manaseryan; Lucia Sarti; Anton Ervynck; Cevdet Merih Erek; Melinda A. Zeder; László Bartosiewicz; Azadeh Fatemeh Mohaseb; Michael P. Richards; Michelle Alexander; Elisabeth Stephan; Mike J. Church; Sepideh Maziar; Rose-Marie Arbogast; Kevin G. Daly; M. Thomas P. Gilbert; Jean-Denis Vigne; Kurt J. Gron; Ceiridwen J. Edwards; Domenico Fulgione; Evan K. Irving-Pease; Jelena Bulatović; Wolfram Schier; Daniel G. Bradley; Mike Parker Pearson; Anne Tresset; Ron Pinhasi; Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans; Anastasia Papathanasiou; John Chapman; Keith Dobney; Anna Linderholm; Victoria E. Mullin; Jörg Schibler; Sophie Van Poucke; Louis du Plessis; Joachim Burger; Anders Götherström; Audrey T. Lin; Aslı Erim-Özdoğan; David Orton; Adrian Bӑlӑşescu; Lionel Gourichon; Thomas Cucchi; Ophélie Lebrasseur; Christina Geörg; José Miguel Carretero; Amelie Scheu; James Haile; Valentin Dumitraşcu; Joris Peters; Ross Barnett; Nenad Tasić; Joséphine Lesur; Adina Boroneanţ; Roger Matthews; Allowen Evin

Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Type: Publication

Abstract: Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature disappeared and was replaced by haplotypes associated with European wild boars. This turnover could be accounted for by substantial gene flow from local European wild boars, although it is also possible... (read more)

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1901169116