EAA2021: Abstract
Abstract is part of session #511:
Title & Content
Title:
Insights into ancient Egyptian genomes in the First Millennium BC
Content:
Egypt provides a privileged location to study historical population dynamics as it is at the crossroads between the ancient civilizations in Africa, Asia, and Europe. In the first millennium BC, ancient Egypt witnessed foreign domination by the neighboring populations including Libyans, Nubians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, and others, whose roles vary from trade exchange to invasion and rule. Despite being potential to addressing questions on the population’s demographic, retrieval of ancient DNA from the Egyptian mummies has greatly been challenged by the presence of contamination. Here we report a preliminary, rigorously tested genome-wide dataset from mummies using high-throughput DNA sequencing and targeted capture techniques. The individuals in our study are recovered from Upper and Lower Egypt sites and spanning around 900 years of ancient Egyptian history, from the Third Intermediate to the Roman period. Our study aims to characterize the major ancestry components for ancient Egyptians and to explore the genetic continuation and admixture through times and regions.
Keywords:
Egyptian Mummies, Ancient DNA, Population Genomics
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authors
Main authors:
Nada Salem1,2
Co-author:
Guido Alberto Gnecchi Ruscone2
Angela Mötsch1
Barbara Teßmann3,4
Hannah Frenzel5
Maria Spyrou6
Michael Francken7
Katerina Harvati6,8
Philipp W. Stockhammer1,9
Johannes Krause1,2
Angela Mötsch1
Barbara Teßmann3,4
Hannah Frenzel5
Maria Spyrou6
Michael Francken7
Katerina Harvati6,8
Philipp W. Stockhammer1,9
Johannes Krause1,2
Affiliations:
1 Department of Archaeogenetic, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
2 Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
3 Museum for Prehistory and Early History, SMPK Berlin, Germany
4 Berlin Society of Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, Berlin, Germany
5 Institute of Anatomy, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
6 Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
7 Cultural Heritage Management, Government office of Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg, Germany
8 Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
9 Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
2 Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
3 Museum for Prehistory and Early History, SMPK Berlin, Germany
4 Berlin Society of Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, Berlin, Germany
5 Institute of Anatomy, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
6 Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
7 Cultural Heritage Management, Government office of Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg, Germany
8 Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
9 Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany