Feldman, M.Fernández-Domínguez, E.Reynolds, L.Baird, D.Pearson, J.Hershkovitz, I.May, H.Goring-Morris, N.Benz, M.Gresky, J.Bianco, R.A.Fairbairn, A.Mustafaoğlu, G.Stockhammer, P.W.Posth, C.Haak, W.Jeong, C.Krause, J.2020-01-272020-01-272019Nature Communications, 2019; 10(1):1018-1-1218-102041-17232041-1723http://hdl.handle.net/2440/122923Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. We find high genetic continuity (~80-90%) between the hunter-gatherers and early farmers of Anatolia and detect two distinct incoming ancestries: an early Iranian/Caucasus related one and a later one linked to the ancient Levant. Finally, we observe a genetic link between southern Europe and the Near East predating 15,000 years ago. Our results suggest a limited role of human migration in the emergence of agriculture in central Anatolia.en© The Author(s) 2019. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Human migrationJournal article003011277310.1038/s41467-019-09209-70004615566000012-s2.0-85063268233467105Haak, W. [0000-0003-2475-2007]