TY - JOUR
T1 - Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in eleventh-century Al-Andalus
AU - Silva, Marina
AU - Oteo-García, Gonzalo
AU - Martiniano, Rui
AU - Guimarães, João
AU - von Tersch, Matthew
AU - Madour, Ali
AU - Shoeib, Tarek
AU - Fichera, Alessandro
AU - Justeau, Pierre
AU - Foody, M. George B.
AU - McGrath, Krista
AU - Barrachina, Amparo
AU - Palomar, Vicente
AU - Dulias, Katharina
AU - Yau, Bobby
AU - Gandini, Francesca
AU - Clarke, Douglas J.
AU - Rosa, Alexandra
AU - Brehm, António
AU - Flaquer, Antònia
AU - Rito, Teresa
AU - Olivieri, Anna
AU - Achilli, Alessandro
AU - Torroni, Antonio
AU - Gómez-Carballa, Alberto
AU - Salas, Antonio
AU - Bryk, Jaroslaw
AU - Ditchfield, Peter W.
AU - Alexander, Michelle
AU - Pala, Maria
AU - Soares, Pedro A.
AU - Edwards, Ceiridwen J.
AU - Richards, Martin B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Historical records document medieval immigration from North Africa to Iberia to create Islamic al-Andalus. Here, we present a low-coverage genome of an eleventh century CE man buried in an Islamic necropolis in Segorbe, near Valencia, Spain. Uniparental lineages indicate North African ancestry, but at the autosomal level he displays a mosaic of North African and European-like ancestries, distinct from any present-day population. Altogether, the genome-wide evidence, stable isotope results and the age of the burial indicate that his ancestry was ultimately a result of admixture between recently arrived Amazigh people (Berbers) and the population inhabiting the Peninsula prior to the Islamic conquest. We detect differences between our sample and a previously published group of contemporary individuals from Valencia, exemplifying how detailed, small-scale aDNA studies can illuminate fine-grained regional and temporal differences. His genome demonstrates how ancient DNA studies can capture portraits of past genetic variation that have been erased by later demographic shifts—in this case, most likely the seventeenth century CE expulsion of formerly Islamic communities as tolerance dissipated following the Reconquista by the Catholic kingdoms of the north.
AB - Historical records document medieval immigration from North Africa to Iberia to create Islamic al-Andalus. Here, we present a low-coverage genome of an eleventh century CE man buried in an Islamic necropolis in Segorbe, near Valencia, Spain. Uniparental lineages indicate North African ancestry, but at the autosomal level he displays a mosaic of North African and European-like ancestries, distinct from any present-day population. Altogether, the genome-wide evidence, stable isotope results and the age of the burial indicate that his ancestry was ultimately a result of admixture between recently arrived Amazigh people (Berbers) and the population inhabiting the Peninsula prior to the Islamic conquest. We detect differences between our sample and a previously published group of contemporary individuals from Valencia, exemplifying how detailed, small-scale aDNA studies can illuminate fine-grained regional and temporal differences. His genome demonstrates how ancient DNA studies can capture portraits of past genetic variation that have been erased by later demographic shifts—in this case, most likely the seventeenth century CE expulsion of formerly Islamic communities as tolerance dissipated following the Reconquista by the Catholic kingdoms of the north.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41598-021-95996-3
DO - 10.1038/s41598-021-95996-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 34518562
AN - SCOPUS:85114864613
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 11
JO - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
IS - 1
M1 - 18121
ER -