Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 2020, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (04): 695-705.doi: 10.16359/j.cnki.cn11-1963/q.2020.0058

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Ancient mitogenomes reveals Holocene human population history in the Nenjiang River valley

LI Chunxiang1,2, ZHANG Fan2, MA Pengcheng2, WANG Lixin1,*(), CUI Yinqiu1,2,*()   

  1. 1. Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University, Jilin University, Changchun 130012
    2. School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130012
  • Received:2020-07-31 Revised:2020-09-27 Online:2020-11-15 Published:2020-11-25
  • Contact: WANG Lixin,CUI Yinqiu E-mail:wanglx@jlu.edu.cn;cuiyq@jlu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The Nenjiang River valley is one of the most important settlements for ancient Chinese people in northeast China. Archaeological research demonstrates that the inhabitants had practiced mixed hunting-gathering-fishing since the Neolithic Age, only began to engage in animal husbandry and limited millet cultivation until the late Neolithic Age and early Bronze Age. A problem remained about whether it was a transfer of culture and technology or if it involved the migration of people who experimented with animal husbandry and limited millet cultivation and then brought them to Nenjiang River valley. Here we successfully sequenced 24 complete mitochondrial DNA genomes of 11000 to 2000-year-old humans from the Nenjiang River Valley. The results show that the Bronze / Iron Age populations of Nenjiang River valley matrilineal received partial contribution from the populations of the West Liao River, despite some level of continuity between Neolithic Age groups and Bronze / Iron Age. Combining paleoclimatology, archaeology, and linguistics, we estimate that the ancient people of West Liao River had migrated to the Nenjiang River valley carried their cultural techniques and languages between 4,000 and 3,000 years ago.

Key words: Nenjiang River valley, Ancient DNA, Mitogenomes, Genetic Structure

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