Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in eleventh-century Al-Andalus
Silva, Marina (University of Huddersfeld. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Oteo-García, Gonzalo (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Martiniano, Rui (University of Cambridge. Department of Genetics)
Guimarães, João (University of Minho. Department of Biology)
von Tersch, Matthew (University of York. Department of Archaeology)
Madour, Ali (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Shoeib, Tarek (University of Benghazi. Department of Forensic Science, Faculty of Biomedical Science)
Fichera, Alessandro (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Justeau, Pierre (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Foody, M. George B. (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
McGrath, Krista Michelle (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Barrachina, Amparo (Museu Belles Arts de Castelló)
Palomar, Vicente (Museo Municipal de Arqueología y Etnología de Segorbe)
Dulias, Katharina (Technische Universität Braunschweig. Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation)
Yau, Bobby (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Gandini, Francesca (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Clarke, Douglas J. (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Rosa, Alexandra (University of Madeira. Human Genetics Laboratory)
Brehm, António (University of Madeira. Human Genetics Laboratory)
Flaquer, Antònia (LMU University. Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology)
Rito, Teresa (University of Minho. Life and Health Sciences Research Institute)
Olivieri, Anna (Università di Pavia. Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie)
Achilli, Alessandro (Università di Pavia. Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie)
Torroni, Antonio (Università di Pavia. Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie)
Gómez-Carballa, Alberto (Hospital Clínico Universitario (Santiago de Compostela, Galícia))
Salas, Antonio (Hospital Clínico Universitario (Santiago de Compostela, Galícia))
Bryk, Jaroslaw (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Ditchfield, Peter W. (University of Oxford. School of Archaeology)
Alexander, Michelle (University of York. Department of Archaeology)
Pala, Maria (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Soares, Pedro A. (University of Minho. Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability)
Edwards, Ceiridwen J. (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Richards, Martin B. (University of Huddersfield. Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria

Date:	2021
Abstract:	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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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Evolutionary genetics ; Population genetics
Published in:	Scientific reports, Vol. 11 (September 2021) , art. 18121, ISSN 2045-2322

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95996-3
PMID: 34518562

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