Ancient DNA,a Neolithic legging from the Swiss Alps and the early history of goat |
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| Authors: | Angela Schlumbaum,Paula F. Campos,Serge Volken,Marquita Volken,Albert Hafner,Jö rg Schibler |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Basel, Institute of Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Spalenring 145, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland;2. GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Østervoldgade 5-7, DK 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark;3. Gentle Craft, Rôtillon 10, CH 1002 Lausanne, Switzerland;4. Archaeological Service of the Canton Bern, Brünnenstrasse 66, CH-3001 Bern, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Ancient DNA from a Neolithic legging (1st half of the 3rd millennium BC) found at Lenk, Schnidejoch (2750 m a.sl.) in the Swiss Alps has demonstrated, that modern distribution of genetic variation does not reflect past spatio-temporal signatures. The legging was made from the skin of a domestic goat (Capra hircus), belonging to the caprine haplogroup B1, which is marginal in Europe today, but represents a third highly diverse goat haplogroup entering Europe already in the Neolithic. Population expansion of lineage B therefore happened more than 4500 years ago, but their members were at some point almost completely replaced by goats of today's common A and C haplogroups. |
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| Keywords: | Ancient DNA Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup Expansion Neolithic Switzerland |
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