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Oxbow Books, Oct 20, 2022

Nature, 2023

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic ... more Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to the scarceness and poor molecular preservation of human remains from that period 3. Here we analyse 356 ancient hunter-gatherer genomes, including new genomic data for 116 individuals from 14 countries in western and central Eurasia, spanning between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago. We identify a genetic ancestry profile in individuals associated with Upper Palaeolithic Gravettian assemblages from western Europe that is distinct from contemporaneous groups related to this archaeological culture in central and southern Europe 4 , but resembles that of preceding individuals associated with the Aurignacian culture. This ancestry profile survived during the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 to 19,000 years ago) in human populations from southwestern Europe associated with the Solutrean culture, and with the following Magdalenian culture that re-expanded northeastward after the Last Glacial Maximum. Conversely, we reveal a genetic turnover in southern Europe suggesting a local replacement of human groups around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, accompanied by a north-to-south dispersal of populations associated with the Epigravettian culture. From at least 14,000 years ago, an ancestry related to this culture spread from the south across the rest of Europe, largely replacing the Magdalenian-associated gene pool. After a period of limited admixture that spanned the beginning of the Mesolithic, we find genetic interactions between western and eastern European hunter-gatherers, who were also characterized by marked differences in phenotypically relevant variants. Modern humans left sub-Saharan Africa at least 60 thousand years ago (ka), and during their initial expansion into Eurasia, they genetically mixed with Neanderthals, resulting in 2-3% Neanderthal ancestry in the majority of present-day non-African populations 5. Genomic data have shown that modern humans were present in western Eurasia 1,2 at least 45 ka. Some of those early groups from more than 40 ka further admixed with Neanderthals, as shown by signals of recent introgression in individuals from Bacho Kiro in Bulgaria-associated with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) archaeological culture-and from Peştera cu Oase in Romania 2,6. Other individuals from that period, such as Zlatý kůň from Czechia and Ust'Ishim from Russia, do not carry significantly more Neanderthal ancestry than other non-African groups 1,7 , indicating differential interactions between Neanderthals and early modern humans during their initial expansions across Eurasia. Surprisingly, however, none of those pre-40 ka individuals left substantial traces in the genetic makeup of present-day Eurasian populations 1,2,6,7. The oldest genomes carrying ancestries that derive primarily from the lineage leading to present-day Europeans are Kostenki 14 (from 37 ka, with uncertain archaeological association from western Russia), Goyet Q116-1 (35 ka, Aurignacian-associated from Belgium) and Bacho Kiro 1653 (35 ka, probably Aurignacian-associated from Bulgaria) 2,4,8. These data suggest that the genetic ancestries identified in the pre-40 ka individuals analysed so far went largely extinct or were assimilated by subsequent expansions 1,9. The Kostenki genetic signature (related to the Kostenki 14 genome, and hereafter referred to as the Kostenki cluster or ancestry) contributed to the later Věstonice genetic cluster (hereafter, Věstonice cluster or ancestry), named after the Dolní Věstonice site in Czechia 4. This genetic signature is shared among individuals associated with the archaeologically defined Gravettian culture (33-26 ka) in central and southern Europe and seemingly disappeared after the Last Glacial Maximum 4 (LGM). However, the genetic profile of contemporaneous Gravettian-associated individuals from western Europe remains unknown, as is their contribution to populations after the LGM. Known to have been the coldest phase of the last Ice Age, the LGM is considered to have caused a demographic decline in large parts of Europe 10 , with populations retracting to southern latitudes as attested-for example-by the contemporaneity of the Solutrean culture (24-19 ka) in the Iberian peninsula and southern France. Other proposed climatic refugia for human survival during this period are the Italian peninsula, the Balkans and the southeastern European Plain, but the actual genetic contribution of populations from these regions to post-LGM Europeans is highly debated 11-13. After the LGM, a genetic component distantly linked to the Goyet Q116-1 individual from Belgium dated to 35 ka-named GoyetQ2 ancestry (hereafter, GoyetQ2 cluster or ancestry)-reappeared in individuals from southwestern and central Europe associated with the Magdalenian culture (19-14 ka from Iberia to eastern Europe across central Europe) and in an admixed form in subsequent Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic

Nature

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic r... more Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to the scarceness and poor molecular preservation of human remains from that period3. Here we analyse 356 ancient hunter-gatherer genomes, including new genomic data for 116 individuals from 14 countries in western and central Eurasia, spanning between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago. We identify a genetic ancestry profile in individuals associated with Upper Palaeolithic Gravettian assemblages from western Europe that is distinct from contemporaneous groups related to this archaeological culture in central and southern Europe4, but resembles that of preceding individuals associated with the Aurignacian culture. This ancestry profile survived during the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 to 19,000 years ago) in human populations from southwestern Europe associated with the Solutrean culture, and with the following Magdal...

De la mano de la Prehistoria: Homenaje a Pilar Utrilla Miranda, 2021, ISBN 978-84-1340-327-4, págs. 309-324, 2021

[EN] Recent fieldworks in the Abreda cave have made it possible to reinterpret the data available... more [EN] Recent fieldworks in the Abreda cave have made it possible to reinterpret the data available on level A, the last from the Pleistocene, deposited before a wide red clay stratum with Neolithic ceramics, which closes the sequence in that site. Level A displays extreme archaeological poverty, and until now we described is simply as Post Solutrean. Now for the first time we rcan attribute it, at least in good part, to the Middle Magdalenian because of stratigraphic and typological reasons. A radiocarbon dating of 14C AMS 13,704 += 41 uncal BP confirms this attribution. Until now, the Magdalenian was only known in Serinyà in the Bora Gran d'En Carreras, as it was missing in all the sites in the Reclau area.[ES] Las últimas campañas de excavación en la cueva de la Arbreda han permitido reinterpretar los antiguos datos disponibles sobre el nivel A, el último de edad pleistocena, que precede un potente estrato de arcillas rojkas con cerámicas y restos neolíticos que sella el yacimiento. Es de una extrema pobreza arqueológica y hasta ahora lo calificábamos simplemente como postsolutrense. Ahora por primera vez podemos atribuirlo, por lo menos en buena parte, al Magdaleniense Medio, por razones estratigráficas y tipológicas, Una datación 14C AMS 13.704 += uncal BP confirma esta atribución. Hasta ahora el Magdaleniense solo era conocido en Serinyà en la Bora Gran d'En Carreras, pues faltaba en todos los yacimientos del paraje del Reclau.Peer reviewe

Jornades d’Arqueologia de les Comarques de Girona (13es : 2016 : Banyoles). Tretzenes Jornades d’... more Jornades d’Arqueologia de les Comarques de Girona (13es : 2016 : Banyoles). Tretzenes Jornades d’Arqueologia de les Comarques de Girona : Banyoles, 10 i 11 de juny de 2016

Rodis. Journal of Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2022

La família Llorens fou una de les més benestants de Salt durant l’època moderna. A principis del ... more La família Llorens fou una de les més benestants de Salt durant l’època moderna. A principis del segle XVI enderrocaren parcialment el mas on habitaven des del segle XIII i en construïren un de nou seguint els paràmetres arquitectònics i decoratius de l’època. A principis del segle XVII impulsaren una nova reforma però entre el primer terç i el segon d’aquell mateix segle l’antic casal es convertí en una masoveria. D’aquest moment és el farciment d’un dipòsit format per centenars d’atuells ceràmics i de vidre barrejats amb restes de desenes d’aus.

Quinzenes Jornades d'Arqueologia de les comarques de Girona, 2020

Es parla en el text de la descoberta parcial d'una necròpolis de cronologies medievals i modernes... more Es parla en el text de la descoberta parcial d'una necròpolis de cronologies medievals i modernes al nucli del municipi d'Ullà, a redós de l'antiga esglèsia de Sant Andreu.

XIII Jornades d'Arqueologia de les comarques de Girona, 2016

L’excavacio del cementiri de Marenya, realitzada durant el 2009, permete estudiar un seguit d ’en... more L’excavacio del cementiri de Marenya, realitzada durant el 2009, permete estudiar un seguit d ’enterraments del segle XI posteriors a la construccio de l’esglesia romanica. Alguns d’aquests enterraments eren efectuats en sepulcres de lloses de forma antropomorfa , i d’altres en fosses simples. La neteja del lloc tambe va permetre observar l ’existencia d’un absis d’una edificacio anterior.

L’objectiu d’aquest treball es el d’aportar coneixement sobre les pautes de consum animal a la vi... more L’objectiu d’aquest treball es el d’aportar coneixement sobre les pautes de consum animal a la vil·la del Pla de l’Horta (Sarria de Ter, Girones) a partir d’un nombros conjunt de restes faunistiques extretes durant les campanyes dels anys 2014‑15. Malgrat que l’estudi ressalta un processament integral dels animals de la triada domestica (Bos taurus‑Sus domesticus‑Ovis/Capra), es denota una proporcio molt mes important del bovi i el porci entre finals del segle II d.C. i el segle III d.C., amb un sacrifici orientat als individus subadults i adults. La dieta carnica es complementava amb el consum d’aus de corral i animals cacats. A mes, durant aquesta etapa es fa patent la presencia del salao de tonyina. A les fases tardanes, tot i un pes notable del cavall, els pocs indicis de consum antropic es centren, fonamentalment, sobre el bovi.

Journal of Human Evolution

Science

We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampl... more We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by ~2500 BCE and, by ~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia’s ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by people with Steppe ancestry. We show that, in the Iron Age, Steppe ancestry had spread not only into Indo-European–speaking regions but also into non-Indo-European–speaking ones, and we reveal that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia. Additionally, we document how, beginning at least in the Roman period, the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the east...

Science

We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampl... more We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by ~2500 BCE and, by ~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia’s ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by people with Steppe ancestry. We show that, in the Iron Age, Steppe ancestry had spread not only into Indo-European–speaking regions but also into non-Indo-European–speaking ones, and we reveal that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia. Additionally, we document how, beginning at least in the Roman period, the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the east...

Post-Classical Archaeologies, 2020

The paper analyzes the impact of the Visigothic presence in the city of Gerunda, located in the n... more The paper analyzes the impact of the Visigothic presence in the city of Gerunda, located
in the northeast of Iberian Peninsula, and its surrounding territory. The archaeological excavations
carried out over the last years in different kinds of archaeological sites (urban
spaces, necropolis, castellum, religious buildings) allow to made up a vision of the transition
between the Roman Empire and the new social, religious and politic structures of the
Visigothic period.

Oxbow Books, Oct 20, 2022

Nature, 2023

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic ... more Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to the scarceness and poor molecular preservation of human remains from that period 3. Here we analyse 356 ancient hunter-gatherer genomes, including new genomic data for 116 individuals from 14 countries in western and central Eurasia, spanning between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago. We identify a genetic ancestry profile in individuals associated with Upper Palaeolithic Gravettian assemblages from western Europe that is distinct from contemporaneous groups related to this archaeological culture in central and southern Europe 4 , but resembles that of preceding individuals associated with the Aurignacian culture. This ancestry profile survived during the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 to 19,000 years ago) in human populations from southwestern Europe associated with the Solutrean culture, and with the following Magdalenian culture that re-expanded northeastward after the Last Glacial Maximum. Conversely, we reveal a genetic turnover in southern Europe suggesting a local replacement of human groups around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, accompanied by a north-to-south dispersal of populations associated with the Epigravettian culture. From at least 14,000 years ago, an ancestry related to this culture spread from the south across the rest of Europe, largely replacing the Magdalenian-associated gene pool. After a period of limited admixture that spanned the beginning of the Mesolithic, we find genetic interactions between western and eastern European hunter-gatherers, who were also characterized by marked differences in phenotypically relevant variants. Modern humans left sub-Saharan Africa at least 60 thousand years ago (ka), and during their initial expansion into Eurasia, they genetically mixed with Neanderthals, resulting in 2-3% Neanderthal ancestry in the majority of present-day non-African populations 5. Genomic data have shown that modern humans were present in western Eurasia 1,2 at least 45 ka. Some of those early groups from more than 40 ka further admixed with Neanderthals, as shown by signals of recent introgression in individuals from Bacho Kiro in Bulgaria-associated with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) archaeological culture-and from Peştera cu Oase in Romania 2,6. Other individuals from that period, such as Zlatý kůň from Czechia and Ust'Ishim from Russia, do not carry significantly more Neanderthal ancestry than other non-African groups 1,7 , indicating differential interactions between Neanderthals and early modern humans during their initial expansions across Eurasia. Surprisingly, however, none of those pre-40 ka individuals left substantial traces in the genetic makeup of present-day Eurasian populations 1,2,6,7. The oldest genomes carrying ancestries that derive primarily from the lineage leading to present-day Europeans are Kostenki 14 (from 37 ka, with uncertain archaeological association from western Russia), Goyet Q116-1 (35 ka, Aurignacian-associated from Belgium) and Bacho Kiro 1653 (35 ka, probably Aurignacian-associated from Bulgaria) 2,4,8. These data suggest that the genetic ancestries identified in the pre-40 ka individuals analysed so far went largely extinct or were assimilated by subsequent expansions 1,9. The Kostenki genetic signature (related to the Kostenki 14 genome, and hereafter referred to as the Kostenki cluster or ancestry) contributed to the later Věstonice genetic cluster (hereafter, Věstonice cluster or ancestry), named after the Dolní Věstonice site in Czechia 4. This genetic signature is shared among individuals associated with the archaeologically defined Gravettian culture (33-26 ka) in central and southern Europe and seemingly disappeared after the Last Glacial Maximum 4 (LGM). However, the genetic profile of contemporaneous Gravettian-associated individuals from western Europe remains unknown, as is their contribution to populations after the LGM. Known to have been the coldest phase of the last Ice Age, the LGM is considered to have caused a demographic decline in large parts of Europe 10 , with populations retracting to southern latitudes as attested-for example-by the contemporaneity of the Solutrean culture (24-19 ka) in the Iberian peninsula and southern France. Other proposed climatic refugia for human survival during this period are the Italian peninsula, the Balkans and the southeastern European Plain, but the actual genetic contribution of populations from these regions to post-LGM Europeans is highly debated 11-13. After the LGM, a genetic component distantly linked to the Goyet Q116-1 individual from Belgium dated to 35 ka-named GoyetQ2 ancestry (hereafter, GoyetQ2 cluster or ancestry)-reappeared in individuals from southwestern and central Europe associated with the Magdalenian culture (19-14 ka from Iberia to eastern Europe across central Europe) and in an admixed form in subsequent Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic

Nature

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic r... more Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to the scarceness and poor molecular preservation of human remains from that period3. Here we analyse 356 ancient hunter-gatherer genomes, including new genomic data for 116 individuals from 14 countries in western and central Eurasia, spanning between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago. We identify a genetic ancestry profile in individuals associated with Upper Palaeolithic Gravettian assemblages from western Europe that is distinct from contemporaneous groups related to this archaeological culture in central and southern Europe4, but resembles that of preceding individuals associated with the Aurignacian culture. This ancestry profile survived during the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 to 19,000 years ago) in human populations from southwestern Europe associated with the Solutrean culture, and with the following Magdal...

De la mano de la Prehistoria: Homenaje a Pilar Utrilla Miranda, 2021, ISBN 978-84-1340-327-4, págs. 309-324, 2021

[EN] Recent fieldworks in the Abreda cave have made it possible to reinterpret the data available... more [EN] Recent fieldworks in the Abreda cave have made it possible to reinterpret the data available on level A, the last from the Pleistocene, deposited before a wide red clay stratum with Neolithic ceramics, which closes the sequence in that site. Level A displays extreme archaeological poverty, and until now we described is simply as Post Solutrean. Now for the first time we rcan attribute it, at least in good part, to the Middle Magdalenian because of stratigraphic and typological reasons. A radiocarbon dating of 14C AMS 13,704 += 41 uncal BP confirms this attribution. Until now, the Magdalenian was only known in Serinyà in the Bora Gran d'En Carreras, as it was missing in all the sites in the Reclau area.[ES] Las últimas campañas de excavación en la cueva de la Arbreda han permitido reinterpretar los antiguos datos disponibles sobre el nivel A, el último de edad pleistocena, que precede un potente estrato de arcillas rojkas con cerámicas y restos neolíticos que sella el yacimiento. Es de una extrema pobreza arqueológica y hasta ahora lo calificábamos simplemente como postsolutrense. Ahora por primera vez podemos atribuirlo, por lo menos en buena parte, al Magdaleniense Medio, por razones estratigráficas y tipológicas, Una datación 14C AMS 13.704 += uncal BP confirma esta atribución. Hasta ahora el Magdaleniense solo era conocido en Serinyà en la Bora Gran d'En Carreras, pues faltaba en todos los yacimientos del paraje del Reclau.Peer reviewe

Jornades d’Arqueologia de les Comarques de Girona (13es : 2016 : Banyoles). Tretzenes Jornades d’... more Jornades d’Arqueologia de les Comarques de Girona (13es : 2016 : Banyoles). Tretzenes Jornades d’Arqueologia de les Comarques de Girona : Banyoles, 10 i 11 de juny de 2016

Rodis. Journal of Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2022

La família Llorens fou una de les més benestants de Salt durant l’època moderna. A principis del ... more La família Llorens fou una de les més benestants de Salt durant l’època moderna. A principis del segle XVI enderrocaren parcialment el mas on habitaven des del segle XIII i en construïren un de nou seguint els paràmetres arquitectònics i decoratius de l’època. A principis del segle XVII impulsaren una nova reforma però entre el primer terç i el segon d’aquell mateix segle l’antic casal es convertí en una masoveria. D’aquest moment és el farciment d’un dipòsit format per centenars d’atuells ceràmics i de vidre barrejats amb restes de desenes d’aus.

Quinzenes Jornades d'Arqueologia de les comarques de Girona, 2020

Es parla en el text de la descoberta parcial d'una necròpolis de cronologies medievals i modernes... more Es parla en el text de la descoberta parcial d'una necròpolis de cronologies medievals i modernes al nucli del municipi d'Ullà, a redós de l'antiga esglèsia de Sant Andreu.

XIII Jornades d'Arqueologia de les comarques de Girona, 2016

L’excavacio del cementiri de Marenya, realitzada durant el 2009, permete estudiar un seguit d ’en... more L’excavacio del cementiri de Marenya, realitzada durant el 2009, permete estudiar un seguit d ’enterraments del segle XI posteriors a la construccio de l’esglesia romanica. Alguns d’aquests enterraments eren efectuats en sepulcres de lloses de forma antropomorfa , i d’altres en fosses simples. La neteja del lloc tambe va permetre observar l ’existencia d’un absis d’una edificacio anterior.

L’objectiu d’aquest treball es el d’aportar coneixement sobre les pautes de consum animal a la vi... more L’objectiu d’aquest treball es el d’aportar coneixement sobre les pautes de consum animal a la vil·la del Pla de l’Horta (Sarria de Ter, Girones) a partir d’un nombros conjunt de restes faunistiques extretes durant les campanyes dels anys 2014‑15. Malgrat que l’estudi ressalta un processament integral dels animals de la triada domestica (Bos taurus‑Sus domesticus‑Ovis/Capra), es denota una proporcio molt mes important del bovi i el porci entre finals del segle II d.C. i el segle III d.C., amb un sacrifici orientat als individus subadults i adults. La dieta carnica es complementava amb el consum d’aus de corral i animals cacats. A mes, durant aquesta etapa es fa patent la presencia del salao de tonyina. A les fases tardanes, tot i un pes notable del cavall, els pocs indicis de consum antropic es centren, fonamentalment, sobre el bovi.

Journal of Human Evolution

Science

We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampl... more We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by ~2500 BCE and, by ~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia’s ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by people with Steppe ancestry. We show that, in the Iron Age, Steppe ancestry had spread not only into Indo-European–speaking regions but also into non-Indo-European–speaking ones, and we reveal that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia. Additionally, we document how, beginning at least in the Roman period, the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the east...

Science

We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampl... more We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by ~2500 BCE and, by ~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia’s ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by people with Steppe ancestry. We show that, in the Iron Age, Steppe ancestry had spread not only into Indo-European–speaking regions but also into non-Indo-European–speaking ones, and we reveal that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia. Additionally, we document how, beginning at least in the Roman period, the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the east...

Post-Classical Archaeologies, 2020

The paper analyzes the impact of the Visigothic presence in the city of Gerunda, located in the n... more The paper analyzes the impact of the Visigothic presence in the city of Gerunda, located
in the northeast of Iberian Peninsula, and its surrounding territory. The archaeological excavations
carried out over the last years in different kinds of archaeological sites (urban
spaces, necropolis, castellum, religious buildings) allow to made up a vision of the transition
between the Roman Empire and the new social, religious and politic structures of the
Visigothic period.