Laurits Skov, Stéphane Peyrégne, Divyaratan Popli, Leonardo N M Iasi, Thibaut Devièse, Viviane Slon, Elena I Zavala, Mateja Hajdinjak, Arev P Sümer, Steffi Grote, Alba Bossoms Mesa, David López Herráez, Birgit Nickel, Sarah Nagel, Julia Richter, Elena Essel, Marie Gansauge, Anna Schmidt, Petra Korlević, Daniel Comeskey, Anatoly P Derevianko, Aliona Kharevich, Sergey V Markin, Sahra Talamo, Katerina Douka, Maciej T Krajcarz, Richard G Roberts, Thomas Higham, Bence Viola, Andrey I Krivoshapkin, Kseniya A Kolobova, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo, Benjamin M Peter
Genomic analyses of Neanderthals have previously provided insights into their population history and relationship to modern humans1-8 , but the social organization of Neanderthal communities remains poorly understood. Here we present genetic data for 13 Neanderthals from two Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia: 11 from Chagyrskaya Cave9,10 and 2 from Okladnikov Cave11 -making this one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date. We used hybridization capture to obtain genome-wide nuclear data, as well as mitochondrial and Y-chromosome sequences...
October 2022: Nature