Published January 31, 2025
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Journal article
Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep
Creators
- Daly, Kevin
- Mullin, Victoria
- Hare, Andrew
- Halpin, Áine
- Mattiangeli, Valeria
- Teasdale, Matthew
- Rossi, Conor
- Geiger, Sheila
- Krebs, Stefan
- Medugorac, Ivica
- Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson
- Özbaşaran, Mihriban
- Duru, Güneş
- Gülcür, Sevil
- Pöllath, Nadja
- Collins, Matthew
- Frantz, Laurent
- Vila, Emmanuelle
- Zidarov, Peter
- Stoddart, Simon
- Boldgiv, Bazartseren
- Orlando, Ludovic
- Pearson, Mike Parker
- Mullville, Jacqui
- Askeyev, Igor
- Askeyev, Arthur
- Askeyev, Oleg
- Shaymuratova, Dilyara
- van den Hurk, Youri
- Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea
- Arbogast, Rose-Marie
- Hemmer, Helmut
- Davoudi, Hossein
- Amiri, Sarieh
- Doost, Sanaz Beizaee
- Decruyenaere, Delphine
- Fathi, Homa
- Khazaeli, Roya
- Hassanzadeh, Yousef
- Sardari, Alireza
- Lhuillier, Johanna
- Abdolahi, Mostafa
- Summers, Geoffrey
- Marro, Catherine
- Bahshaliyev, Veli
- Berthon, Rémi
- Çakirlar, Canan
- Benecke, Norbert
- Scheu, Amelie
- Burger, Joachim
- Sauer, Eberhard
- Horwitz, Liora Kolska
- Arbuckle, Benjamin
- Buitenhuis, Hijlke
- Gourichon, Lionel
- Bulatović, Jelena
- O'connor, Terry
- Orton, David
- Jalabadze, Mindia
- Rhodes, Stephen
- Chazan, Michael
- Özkaya, Vecihi
- Zeder, Melinda
- Atıcı, Levent
- Mashkour, Marjan
- Peters, Joris
- Bradley, Daniel
Contributors
Others:
- Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe (ARCHIMEDE) ; Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- BioArchéologie, Interactions Sociétés Environnements (BioArch) ; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien (Archéorient) ; Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA)
Description
The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep ( Ovis aries ) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Genomes from Central Türkiye ~8000 BCE are genetically proximal to the domestic origins of sheep but do not fully explain the ancestry of later populations, suggesting a mosaic of wild ancestries. Genomic signatures indicate selection by ancient herders for pigmentation patterns, hornedness, and growth rate. Although the first European sheep flocks derive from Türkiye, in a notable parallel with ancient human genome discoveries, we detected a major influx of Western steppe–related ancestry in the Bronze Age.
Abstract
International audienceAdditional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://hal.science/hal-05034232
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-05034232v1
Origin repository
- Origin repository
- UNICA